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Trial date set for blogger Kareem

Posted on 16/01/200726/12/2020 By 3arabawy

Egyptian blogger Kareem, who’s been in police custody for two months pending investigation, will show up in Moharram Beik Court Thursday 18 January, to face charges that include: posting articles on the internet deemed “insulting” to the president and the Islamic faith.

For those religious conservatives cheering Kareem’s arrest, and his expulsion from Al-Azhar University for his “anti-Islamic views”… The regime that detained and put Kareem on trial, is the same regime that kidnapped 180 Muslim Brotherhood students from Al-Azhar dorms and has Khairat el-Shatter slowly dying in prison… is the same regime that denies Copts equal treatment as citizens of this country… is the same regime that sodomizes leftists and ordinary citizens… is the same regime that intimidates workers on strikes… is the same regime that tortured and killed the peasants of Sarando.

Wake up! It’s not about liking Kareem’s ideas or not. You cheer Kareem’s persecution today, your turn is coming tomorrow!

Shatter’s daughter appeals for her family release

Posted on 15/01/200726/12/2020 By 3arabawy

The daughter of Khairat el-Shatter, detained MB deputy Supreme Guide, is appealing to rights activists to lobby for her dad’s and husband’s release. Shatter, who’s been in police custody since mid December, is in ailing health with no access to medical treatment.

Solidarity campaign with police torture victim’s family

Posted on 08/01/200716/01/2021 By 3arabawy

I received a statement from the Association for Human Rights Legal Aid (AHRLA), saying they were launching a campaign against State Security Captain Ashraf Mustafa Hussein Safwat, who electrocuted to death in 2003 citizen Muhammad Abdel Kader, a resident in Hadayeq el-Qobba neighborhood in Cairo.

The officer detained 31-year-old Muhammad and his brother Sameh, 27, on 16 September 2003, with no court orders or charges. Five days later, their family was phoned and requested to come and receive Muhammad’s dead body which carried torture marks.

Though the prosecutor took a decision to investigate the officer after three years of the incident, the family was forced to drop the case in court, after the officer blackmailed them using Sameh, who’s still in detention without trial, as a bargaining chip.