3alaa asks for your help to free his friends

3alaa Seif, the leftist blogger who has recently come out of prison, is appealing to you to help release his friends Mohamed Sharqawi and Kareem el-Sha3er.
Please check out the appeal on Human Rights First website.
3alaa, and other leftists, have been also campaigning for the release of Muslim Brothers detainees.
Mr. El-Sa3id Ramadan, one of the editors of Ikhwan Web, sent me a list of the MB detainees who were mostly picked up during pro-democracy demos. The number of detainees had exceeded 900 since last March, but it has gone down to less than 600 detainees at the moment, according to Ramadan, as there has been some recent releases.
The list is in Arabic, and there are missing names (for some reason the file was corrupt), which Ramadan has promised to send in soon. We’ll be updating the list as we receive more names.
(If you are a Muslim Brother activist, and know more names, please contact the website administrator, and we’ll add the names you know.)

UPDATE: The full list of detainees could be found here.

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  1. Signed the HRF petition and would encourage all to do so. The human rights orgs in the US are trying to rouse popular interest in the current situation in Egypt, and by getting lots of signatures and getting their memberships behind this issue they are in a better position to lobby Congress and the US administration to stand up for political rights in Egypt.

    It’s sad, however, that even human rights orgs can’t get their supporters interested in standing up for the rights of the Brothers – especially as the point of the universal-rights idea is that these rights apply to people you may not necessarily like. Faith in the value of pol freedom is a bit thin in the Land of the Free right now.

  2. […] Around 500 demonstrators gathered in front of the Press Syndicate today, to denounce the Israeli military operations in Gaza. The protestors, mostly nationalists and leftists, chanted against Israel’s assault on Gaza, the US support for Tel Aviv, and against the Egyptian Mukhabarrat whose agents are involved in mediations between the Israelis and Palestinians. The demonstrators, led by the two Kamals (Kamal Khalil and Kamal Abu 3eita), also chanted against Mubarak, his son, and the Egyptian businessmen who have links with Israel. The demonstrators called for war against Israel, abolition of the Camp David agreement, and halting the Egyptian cement and iron exports to Israel (some of which go into building the illegal Zionist settlements in the Palestinian Occupied Territories). The chanting and the singing went on for an hour, on the doorsteps of the syndicate. Cars driving through Abdel Khaleq Tharwat Street where slowing to watch the demonstrators, and some flashed signs of support. Kamal Khalil, one of the Revolutionary Socialists’ leaders, called for the release of Sharqawi, Sha3er, Dr. Ayman Nour, and the Muslim Brothers detainees. Kamal reiterated the socialists’ line on Palestine: “The road to Jerusalem, passes through Cairo,” he shouted addressing the crowd. “Our liberation from Mubarak’s rule in Cairo, is linked to the Palestinians’ struggle for liberation from Zionist control, is linked to the Iraqi armed resistance to the American invasion. Every blow we strike against Mubarak here in Cairo, is a plus for the Palestinians and Iraqis. And every blow they strike against the Americans and Israelis is a boost for us. It is obvious now America is not interested in democracy. We never had an illusion to start with they were sincere about their proclaimed goals. Down with America! Down with Israel! Down with the Arab regimes!” An hour later, the protestors got into the syndicate, where Fathi Hammad, member of Hamas’ politburo made a speech, describing the plight of the 10,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. “We have no other means, but kidnapping occupation soldiers to free our people from Israel’s prisons,” he said. “There are women and children incarcerated. Talks never brought us anything. The Israelis promised to free the prisoners before, but all what they do is releasing common criminals or those whose sentences are about to finish.” […]

  3. […] Amnesty International issued a statement Friday expressing concerns over the govt’s new “anti-terror law” currently in the making. One of Mubarak’s promises during his “electoral campaignâ€� last year was the abolishing of the notorious Emergency Law, with which he ruled Egypt since 1981, and replace it with an “anti-terror law.â€� The Emergency law is regarded as the Grim Reaper in the nation’s political scene. It gives the government abusive powers to lock any suspect for 6 months, break demonstrations, and stiffle political life. Though the government claims it’s only used against “terrorists and drug dealers,” it’s clear who is the law used against: Sharqawi, Sha3er, 3alaa, Ibrahim, Kamal, Wael, and hundreds of other activists from the movement for change, as well as thousands of detainees who are languishing in prisons since 1981, and millions of Egyptians in their daily life encounters with the Egyptian police. Of course, as we know, our president’s promise went with the wind (together with few others) as the NDP-controlled parliament voted last April to extend the law for another two years, fearing a “legal vacuum if the emergency law is abolished nowâ€� as Mubarak put it. Now that the regime’s legal experts are well cooking the new anti-terror law, Amnesty International echoed the fears expressed by Egyptian rights activists and opposition group in a statement and memorandum sent to Mubarak. […]

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