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The state hangman will have a lot of work in the coming months in Egypt. The "chopper" of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has reached the summit of the Muslim Brotherhood. Seventy-five people were sentenced to death in Egypt for the violence committed during the eviction of the sit-in in favor of former President Mohamed Morsi in Cairo in August 2013. The decision, which also concerns Main representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood, the movement then banned, was pronounced by the judges of the Capital Court at the end of a maximum trial that dragged on for two years
The decision of the criminal court will now be referred to Grand Mufti, the main theological authority of the country, which generally approves the decisions of the Court. On September 8, the verdict is also expected for 660 other defendants. Among the defendants are Mohamed Badie, supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and well-known photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid. The disturbances that occurred during protest sit-ins, including those in Rabaa and another Cairo square, resulted in the deaths of hundreds of protesters, an estimated number of between 600 and more than one thousand; military and their president … the rebellion in the blood of the rebellion of the Muslim Brotherhood followed the defenestration and the arrest of the elected president Mohamed Morsi, political leader of the Brotherhood.
The death sentence sheds light on the situation inside the Pharaoh Al-Sisi "According to the latest data published by Egyptian human rights activists, the repression imposed by al-Sisi has seen more than 60,000 people arrested, charged with criminal offenses and treated illegally.The level of repression is frightening.The Egyptian authorities have shown that they will stop at nothing to try to quell any dispute of their power, "notes a recent report from Amnesty International. Human rights and even children who wore T-shirts with anti-torture slogans. "
The general-president exercises a power that engulfs the whole society by the army, the police, the paramilitary bands and the secret services, Mukhabarat notorious, almost always more than one. stands at the top of a triangle, that of the shadow state: the army, the Ministry of the Interior (and the NSA, the National Security Agency.) and the GIS (General Intelligence Service, the external secret services) .But in the crosshairs, there are not only leaders and activists of the Muslim Brotherhood. "Prison Generation", it is the title of the report produced by Amnesty International Prison Generation: Egyptian youth protests at the prison focus on the cases of 14 thousands of young people arbitrarily arrested, detained and imprisoned in Egypt in the past two years in connection with protests. In its report, Amnesty denounces the way in which Egypt you, the most populous Arab country in the world, has once again become a police state.
According to the latest data published by Egyptian human rights activists, the crackdown has seen more than 43,000 people arrested, charged with criminal offenses and treated illegally. The level of repression is scary. Among the prisoners are internationally respected youth movement leaders, human rights defenders and even children wearing t-shirts with anti-torture slogans. "
The situation continues to worsen Thousands of arrests these are people who have disappeared in the air: it is also Human Rights Watch to point the index against the situation. Egypt's al-Sisi asking "to inform immediately" the fate of "desaparecidos". "The Egyptian security forces have done away with dozens," says the humanitarian organization, according to which "The arrested persons must be brought before a judge and tried for a specific crime or released immediately."
the story evokes what happened in Argentina with the disappearances during the dictatorship of the generals and Human Rights Watch says "Forcibly removing the population is a serious human rights violation, a crime against humanity," said Joe Stork, deputy director of the Middle East. Among the youth arbitrarily imprisoned are activists Ahmed Maher and Mohamed Adel of the "6 April Youth Movement", the well-known blogger Ahmed Douma, Alaa Abd El Fattah, authoritarian authoritative blogger and voice imprisoned by Hosni Mubarak and the Council Supreme of the Armed Forces, and Human Rights Defenders Yara Sallam and Mahienour El-Mbadry
Here is a testimony, among the many collected by the humanitarian organization, of what a " generation in prison "means:" I was arrested in February, at home, plainclothes security agents, they were beaten and then transferred to Al Azouly, they interrogated me 13 times, the eyes bandaged, naked, handcuffed hands behind the back, hit with electric shocks All over my body, including the testicles, they did not allow me to call my family, so I gave their phone number to a prisoner who was I was about to be released and I warned them. The man who was in the cell with us, he was calling Haj Shatewy and he was coming from Sinai, he was tortured by the 101 Military Brigade. They put him a flaming stick and for nine days he was Could not go to the bathroom. They did not heal him. He died in cell number 11 on the second floor. In May, at the end of the investigation, they released me "
Mahmoud Mohamed Ahmed Hussein, is a student arrested while returning home after having participated in a demonstration, solely because of the slogan written on According to his family and his lawyers, he "confessed" terrorist activities under torture.He spent his 19th birthday in prison, where he was imprisoned for more than 500 days Thousands of people convicted of false accusations o Due to laws restricting freedom of expression and peaceful protest, it contrasts sharply with the few cases of police officers accused of human rights violations since January 2011. Thus, the "generation of courage", praised seven years ago, has become the "prison generation." And many have come out of prison with the indelible signs of torture.
What democracy means Abdel Fattah al -Sisi is full of the most important human rights organizations: systematic resort to torture, worrying increase in cases of "desaparecidos", imprisoned persons whose family members and lawyers do not have known nothing. "Using violence and repression to erode the rule of law and decimate the political opposition is the main goal achieved by al-Sisi," said Sarah Leah Whitson, director of Human Rights Watch for the Middle East. Defined by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) as "one of the largest jails of journalists", Egypt ranks 161st in the 2017 World Press Freedom Index, which measures the freedom enjoyed by Journalists in 180 countries
Workers' protests are suppressed by the militarization of squares, the arrest of independent trade unionists and mbad dismissal: according to a report prepared by the Egyptian Independent Democracy Meter organization, concerning the mobilisations of the workers between May 2016 and April 2017, they would be at least 151 workers and trade unionists arrested during the eleven months and at least 2,691 dismissed "for exercising their right to strike". According to current estimates, at least 1,200 other workers would have suffered the same fate in the last eleven months.
The repression took place: among others, restrictions on individual freedoms, the media and special courts. emergency "number 162 of 1958 reactivated by the decree approved by the parliament of Cairo, in April 2017, after five years of almost uninterrupted suspension.The president of the republic has the undeniable power to impose" restrictions on personal freedom of badembly, movement, residence and movement in certain places and times. "The law also extends to" six months "the period that must elapse before being able to appeal to arrest, reads the article 3a, and it is in this state of police that al-Sisi "triumphed" in the presidential elections "mock elections." The head of the UN agency for human rights The man, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, baderted that these elections were taking place in a "general climate of intimidation", the circumstances being denied, and how could it be otherwise, by the
Moreover, in the months preceding the vote, al-Sisi had t eliminated all potential rivals: the Muslim Brotherhood was banned from politics and their candidate Sami Anan was arrested, including attorney Khaled AlI, who was arrested at a protest, and the Colonel Ahmed Kensowa was sentenced to if years in prison, while former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik was forced to withdraw due to threats received. Same treatment for Mohamed Anwar el-Sadat, the nephew of the Egyptian historical president. Thus, the "general president" was crowned "pharaoh" with 97% of the votes, more than 21.8 million preferences. His challenger (so to speak), Moussa Mustafa Moussa, won 2.92% of the vote (about 656,000 preferences).
The challenger "shadow" of al-Sisi is the sporting hero of Egypt: Mohamed "Momo" Salah, the Liverpool striker, the man who brought the 39, Egypt at the World Cup with a goal scored in the 94th minute in the general fire. According to reports, without official denials, the British media at least one million votes were void and in many of these cases the vote was cast for Salah, who was not a candidate. A triumph, that of al-Sisi, "defected", given that, according to official data, 41.5% of people entitled to vote would have gone to the polls. A "desertion" that did not create any problem for the "pharaoh". And now it's time to finally settle the accounts with his enemies. It starts with the Muslim Brotherhood.
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