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Egypt is Burlit
Cairo. November 23. This gesture is addressed to the police who has launched tear gas
The second wave. Before the parliamentary elections scheduled for November 28, Egypt was breaking again. Two weeks of riots have already taken away the lives of 37 people. Again, as in January-February, the Cairo Square Tahrir is filled with people. Again, the main requirement is the change of power. Military Sinclite, who got up at the steering wheel after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, promised to hold presidential elections until June 30, 2012. But before that, you still need to survive. But when this number The New Times signed, the rumor crawled along Cairo: the military prepare a decree on the cancellation of the November voting ...
The blogger of Alaa Abdel-Fattah was also known before: back in 2004, he and his wife Manal Khussein became a blog on the Internet, where they published information about the cultural and social life of Egypt. In 2005, a married couple was awarded the award of the German competition of the best blogs in the nomination "Special correspondents without borders." But truly the universal fame of Abdel-Fattah gained after he was arrested in the spring of 2006, for showing solidarity with the movement for freedom of the judicial system in Egypt and took part in a peaceful demonstration in support of judges who condemned the election under the election. The arrest of the blogger attracted the attention of the international community, and after 45 days he was released.
The secondary Abdel-Fattah was arrested on October 30, 2011, accusing violence of violence during the bloody reprisal, committed by the military over the Copts-Christians near the building of the Cairo television center and on Tahrir Square on the night of October 9. In one of his letters in the newspaper Schorok, Abdel-Fattah wrote: “I never expected a repetition of events 5 years ago. After the revolution, which overthrew the tyrant, I was again in his prison ... "
Judges in uniform
The military is engaged in the investigation of the circumstances of the events on October 9. It was against this that Abdel-Fattah has recently opposed. The military prosecutor’s office, he said, has no right to investigate the incident, since the military police, which is an interested party, is involved in the case.
Meanwhile, military investigators have already hurried to declare the innocence of soldiers and their non -involvement to death more than two dozen protesters (at the same time, almost 25 civilians were arrested on charges of organizing unrest). After the arrest, Abdel-Fattach himself was also accused of “damage to military property” and “theft of weapons”. Currently, the blogger is contained in the Torah prison, and on November 13, the military court extended his detention for another 15 days, that is, for the entire period of the investigation. Almost no one doubts that the prisoner will remain behind bars and after November 28. "
Can one blogger-discident shake the Makhin of authoritarian power? An example of Alaa Abdel-Fattah tells an affirmative answer
"According to observers, the arrest of Abdel-Fattach is a consequence of his public position, which struck the prestige of the military who concentrated all political and judicial power in their hands in the country. Since the resignation of the former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak, the military courts have already considered the cases of 11 thousand Egyptians accused of" inciting to violence. " The courts do not have the right to choose lawyers independently, which also caused Alaa Abdel-Fattah, he also paid attention to the fact that the military judges are obliged to obey the orders of the higher authorities. "Offended the President."
The heir to traditions
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Actually, the desire for social justice in Ala Abdel-Fattach is family. This is his father Ahmed Seif El Islam Hamed founded the center of Hishaa Mubarak in Cairo, a law firm specializing in the trials of human rights, in particular, on the affairs of the victims of torture. For his political activity, he was 5 years - from 1980 to 1985 - conducted in conclusion. The sister of Abdel-Fattach Mona Sowif stood at the origins of the movement “There are no military courts over civilians”, created after the overthrow of Mubarak. The mother of Leila Sowif, a professor of mathematics at the University of Cairo, has been defending freedom of teaching, and now announced a hunger strike, demanding the liberation of her son and his friends.
Since 2008, Abdel-Fattha and his wife lived in South Africa and returned to their homeland in order to take part in the 2011 liberation revolution. On the Coptic demonstration on October 9, as the New Times told Abdel-Fattah, her son arrived after the main skirmishes with the military and helped to transport the 16-year-old wounded young man to the hospital. There he met relatives of those who died during the clashes, and persuaded them to protest against the immediate burial of bodies and demand their autopsy. That is how, in particular, the family of Coptic girl Mina Daniel, shot by the military during the demonstration, was received. In general, as a result of the examinations, it was found that 10 out of 17 victims, whose bodies were in the hospital, died of fractures, 6 - from firearms and 1 from stabs. On October 20, Abdel-Fattah told about all this in the newspaper Shorok, which was probably read by “interested” military ranks before planting a blogger in jail.
Democracy or junta?
Can one blogger-discident shake the Makhin of authoritarian power? An example of Alaa Abdel-Fattah tells an affirmative answer. The representative office of the Supreme Commissioner for Human Rights under the UN on November 11 called on the Egyptian authorities to liberate Abdel-Fattach. The authorities have not yet reacted. Really waited for Tahrir Square Square, where today at unarmed people they shoot their weighty word not only with rubber bullets? But people, and they, here, according to estimates, are more than 50 thousand, are not afraid of bullets.
Today, the further fate of Abdel-Fattach is a kind of indicator. Depending on how it develops, it will be possible to draw a more or less definite conclusion: whether the real democratic revolution occurred in Egypt in Egypt or was it a military coup.
Translated from English Oksana Klicnikova
Who goes to parliament?
6,700 candidates and 47 political parties apply for 454 places in the Egyptian People’s Assembly, most of which were created after the departure of Hosni Mubarak on February 11, 2011, according to forecasts, Islamist parties of different pities will be taken about 40% of the seats, another third-liberals, the rest of the ruling National Democratic Party and representatives of other other ruling national-democratic party will be divided. parties.
The Party of Freedom and Justice (PSS) is the political wing of the Muslim Brothers (“BM”), which has been banned for many years. Created on April 30, 2011 at the head - former member of the leadership of BM Muhammad Mursi. The party expects to take half the seats in parliament. He advocates the introduction of Sharia, the restoration of the leading position of the country in the Arab and Islamic world. Representatives of the PCC said they would allow Kopov and women to ministerial posts, but not to the presidential.
“WAFD” (or “New WAFD”, “New delegation”) is a liberal party. It has existed since 1983 and has been the successor of one of the oldest parties in Egypt, VAFD, dissolved in 1952. On June 13, she announced the creation of a joint list of candidates to the parliamentary elections with the Muslim Brothers, for which she was sharply criticized by other secular parties. Chairman - Said Badavi.
“Al-Gad” (“Tomorrow”) is a liberal-democratic centrist party. It was registered in 2004. He advocates a peaceful change in power, political and economic reforms, and concern for the disabled.
The Egyptian block was formed in August 2011 from 15 parties and various groups for joint confrontation in the elections to the Muslim Brothers. By November, 3 parties remained in the bloc, the largest of which Tagamma (national progressive association), representing the interests of Egyptian socialists. He opens against religious extremism, the state monopoly in mass media, for the development of industry and the law of workers. The current leader is Mohammed Refat El-Said.
The coalition of socialist forces is an unification of 5 parties of the left. It was formed on May 10, 2011. The most famous in the coalition is the Egyptian Communist Party. The ideology was formed in 1975 - Marxist.