But yeah, but that’s going to be my life for a while, that I’m-because even if we get rid of that case, because of that suspended sentence, it remains hanging over my head for three years, at least. And also we’re busy planning a solid defense strategy. I mean, these are not real courtrooms, this is not true justice, so you have to exert political pressures via protesting, via exposing the irregularities in the process and so on. Yeah, I mean, we have plans to fight this, both in court and out of court, obviously. And then, they kept moving me several times at night.ĪLAA ABD EL- FATTAH : It, of course-I mean, it’s quite horrific, obviously. And they left me there for 12 hours in that condition. I was beaten with the back of some weapon, I’m not sure which. I spent the whole night there, thrown on a floor with my hands tied to my back, my eyes blindfolded with a very dirty rag that-I mean, I actually had an infection in the eye because of it. And they played tricks with me, like when they moved me from room to room, they would walk me outside so that it’d feel like I’m moving from a building to a building, and, you know, stuff like that. And then they blindfolded me and transferred me-later on, I figured out that that’s the Cairo security headquarters forces, but I didn’t know at the time where I was. It was a massive squad, several cars and, you know, tens of people, tens of heavily armed policemen. Then, during the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi, Alaa was issued an arrest warrant as part of a government crackdown on critical voices.īefore they blindfolded me, I-they took me out of the house, and before they blindfolded me, I realized I saw them-they had like the whole neighborhood at gunpoint so that nobody would interfere. His son, Khaled, was born while he was behind bars. Later that year, under the rule of the military council that replaced Mubarak, he was jailed again, this time for 56 days.
In 2011, he emerged as a leading face of the revolution that forced Mubarak out of office. In 2006, under the Mubarak regime, he was detained at a protest calling for independence of the judiciary and was jailed for 45 days. An open Internet and political activist, Alaa has been at the forefront of the struggle for change in Egypt for many years and has the distinction of having been actively persecuted by the past four successive rulers in Egypt. In our global broadcast exclusive today, we spend the hour with one of Egypt’s most prominent dissidents, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, speaking in his first extended interview since his release from prison after nearly four months behind bars. And it marks a serious escalation in the repression on press freedom in Egypt. But by all accounts, press freedom groups across the world have condemned this case, and journalists around the world are calling for their release. People also assume that this is a crackdown also because of Al Jazeera being a Qatari-owned station and the animosity between Qatar and the government in Egypt, and this being a manifestation of that. The private media and the state media act as a propaganda mouthpiece, for the most part, for the regime, and so it’s very hard to hear opposition voices. The pro-Morsi channels have all been shut down. We’ve seen a crackdown on all of the local press. And we can only imagine or surmise that this is a way to clamp down on any media that was really covering the other side of the Egyptian political sphere. The Al Jazeera English was broadcasting from Egypt, would cover a lot of opposition voices, a lot of the protests that were taking place on universities and so forth. We go to Cairo to speak with Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous.
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They and 23 others have been released on bail but still face a trial that resumes next month. Alaa Abd El-Fattah and Ahmed Abdel Rahman are among a group of activists charged with violating the military regime’s anti-protest law. Meanwhile, two leading Egyptian activists have been freed after over 100 days behind bars. They are accused of belonging to or aiding a terrorist organization. In another closely watched trial, Al Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy have been denied bail after nearly three months in prison.
The exceptionally swift trial and harsh sentences mark a new escalation of the Egyptian military regime’s crackdown on Morsi supporters, which has led to hundreds of deaths and thousands of arrests. The trial lasted just over two days, with the majority tried in absentia. On Monday, 529 supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi were ordered killed over the death of a single police officer in protests last summer.
Egypt is facing international criticism after the largest mass sentencing in its modern history.
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