Egyptian Blogger/Developer Still Held in Prison 28 Days After His Release Date (eff.org) 51
In 2004 Alaa Abd El Fattah answered questions from Slashdot's readers about organizing the first-ever Linux installfest in Egypt.
In 2014 he was arrested for organizing poltical protests without requesting authorization, according to Wikipedia, and then released on bail — but then sentenced to five years in prison upon retrial. He was released in late March of 2019, but then re-arrested again in September by the National Security Agency, convicted of "spreading fake news" and jailed for five years...
Wikipedia describes Abd El-Fattah as an "Egyptian-British blogger, software developer and a political activist" who has been "active in developing Arabic-language versions of software and platforms." But this week an EFF blog post noticed that his released date had recently passed — and yet he was still in prison: It's been 28 days since September 29, the day that should have seen British-Egyptian blogger, coder, and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah walk free. Egyptian authorities refused to release him at the end of his sentence, in contradiction of the country's own Criminal Procedure Code, which requires that time served in pretrial detention count toward a prison sentence. [Human Rights Watch says Egyptian authorities are refusing to count more than two years of pretrial detention toward his time served. Amnesty International has also called for his release.] In the days since, Alaa's family has been able to secure meetings with high-level British officials, including Foreign Secretary David Lammy, but as of yet, the Egyptian government still has not released Alaa...
Alaa deserves to finally return to his family, now in the UK, and to be reunited with his son, Khaled, who is now a teenager. We urge EFF supporters in the UK to write to their MP to place pressure on the UK's Labour government to use their power to push for Alaa's release.
Last month the EFF wrote:: Over 20 years ago Alaa began using his technical skills to connect coders and technologists in the Middle East to build online communities where people could share opinions and speak freely and privately. The role he played in using technology to amplify the messages of his fellow Egyptians — as well as his own participation in the uprising in Tahrir Square — made him a prominent global voice during the Arab Spring, and a target for the country's successive repressive regimes, which have used antiterrorism laws to silence critics by throwing them in jail and depriving them of due process and other basic human rights.
Alaa is a symbol for the principle of free speech in a region of the world where speaking out for justice and human rights is dangerous and using the power of technology to build community is criminalized...
In 2014 he was arrested for organizing poltical protests without requesting authorization, according to Wikipedia, and then released on bail — but then sentenced to five years in prison upon retrial. He was released in late March of 2019, but then re-arrested again in September by the National Security Agency, convicted of "spreading fake news" and jailed for five years...
Wikipedia describes Abd El-Fattah as an "Egyptian-British blogger, software developer and a political activist" who has been "active in developing Arabic-language versions of software and platforms." But this week an EFF blog post noticed that his released date had recently passed — and yet he was still in prison: It's been 28 days since September 29, the day that should have seen British-Egyptian blogger, coder, and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah walk free. Egyptian authorities refused to release him at the end of his sentence, in contradiction of the country's own Criminal Procedure Code, which requires that time served in pretrial detention count toward a prison sentence. [Human Rights Watch says Egyptian authorities are refusing to count more than two years of pretrial detention toward his time served. Amnesty International has also called for his release.] In the days since, Alaa's family has been able to secure meetings with high-level British officials, including Foreign Secretary David Lammy, but as of yet, the Egyptian government still has not released Alaa...
Alaa deserves to finally return to his family, now in the UK, and to be reunited with his son, Khaled, who is now a teenager. We urge EFF supporters in the UK to write to their MP to place pressure on the UK's Labour government to use their power to push for Alaa's release.
Last month the EFF wrote:: Over 20 years ago Alaa began using his technical skills to connect coders and technologists in the Middle East to build online communities where people could share opinions and speak freely and privately. The role he played in using technology to amplify the messages of his fellow Egyptians — as well as his own participation in the uprising in Tahrir Square — made him a prominent global voice during the Arab Spring, and a target for the country's successive repressive regimes, which have used antiterrorism laws to silence critics by throwing them in jail and depriving them of due process and other basic human rights.
Alaa is a symbol for the principle of free speech in a region of the world where speaking out for justice and human rights is dangerous and using the power of technology to build community is criminalized...
A world of dictators (Score:2)
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Utilizing technological sophisticated weapons can subjugate a populous easily with impunity.
He was subjugated with a fucking prison cell.
Also known as the ‘“sophisticated” tech of dictators thousands of years old.
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Re:Taking after Kamala (Score:5, Insightful)
I thought you guys loved being tough on crime? Now all of a sudden Kamala is too good of a prosecutor for MAGA.
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Cults tend to actually believe their nonsense. Copy-pasting something on the internet takes much less commitment.
It's sort of a cult-lite at most. The majority are just doing it on a lark and really out of desperation that the democrats didn't help them by doing the opposite of what they and their parents have been voting for.
Perhaps we are seeing the violent end of a certain kind of magical thinking, that Americans could "compete" in the "global free marketplace of ideas" by just owning a house or somethin
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It's more about hypocrisy and people trying to have it both ways. Her history doesn't gel well with the whole defund the police crowd, yet she's headlining their main political faction. Plenty of Dems have complained about her and have been told to stfu noob get with the program.
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...and festival attendees still being held hostage by Hamas.
Release the hostages. End the war.
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so murdering children is okay as a way of forcing the release of hostages?
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It's on the same level as Allies killing children in Germany in World War II. Bombing campaigns be like that sometimes.
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40%-45% of casualties being children is not "sometimes". deliberately bombing schools, hospitals, mosques and shelters where refugees were just prior ordered to go is not "sometimes", specifically targeting journalists, medics, rescue teams and aid workers is not colateral damage, rounding up the whole population, calling them publicly "animals" and "less than human" and denying basic humanitarian needs like food and water (with over 60000 deaths already from starvation) is not a misshap. this is deliberate
"Israel orders Gazans to flee, bombs where it send (Score:3)
"Israel orders Gazans to flee, bombs where it sends them"
This is a reuters headline
Hope you enjoy hell, demon
"How Israel's army uses Palestinian human shields" (Score:3)
"How Israel's Amry Uses Palestinians as Human Shields in Gaza"
This is aNn NYT headline
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/1... [nytimes.com]
Even the MSM won't carry water for you demons anymore. You are the typical zio: heartless, gutless and ball-less, lacking for any conviction, moral foundation or purpose at all outside of you and your favorite settler colony's betterment.
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https://www.nytimes.com/ [nytimes.com]
2024/10/14/world/middleeast/
israel-gaza-military-human-shields.html
There's the full link, put it together.
You really could have just googled the headline. Israel supporters are at the intersection of laziness and diahonesty.
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This is the Reuters article
https://www.yahoo.com/news/isr... [yahoo.com]
You are one dumb motherfucker
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seems trite even, when just across the border in Gaza infinitely worse human rights violations are going on
If we punch you in the face is it okay because someone somewhere else has a worse injury? Is that the logic you're going for? How does your empathy work? Is it reserved for the 2 million people in the worst position in the world? Or do you have an empathy zero - some dude most down on his luck out of the 8.2 billion of us, and everyone within a several km radius?
Jail = hell (Score:5, Informative)
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Traded food, read thick books, converted swastikas into pinwheels, folded origami cranes, destroyed bibles.. I kept myself busy.
In my cell, I did wall art with ink from bendy pens (including an
Like I overheard someone say at Shelton, the processing center for Washington State, that released me, "one year is just
This is Egypt (Score:1)
Just another day in a place like that. You take your chances when you speak up.
Moral of the story, as always, is that you don't argue with anyone that has a bigger gun than you have
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Release is probably never (Score:4, Interesting)
Ignoring the pre-trial detention time is probably just an excuse suggesting the powers that be are not satisfied to let them go yet; the next time the release date comes up, they are bound to come up with More charges or more excuses. Perhaps the authorities can cause something to happen in the prison and frame him for it thus adding to the time, etc.
They can likely construct as many bogus charges as they want the next time release looms close. Such is the way with all poltiical prisoners.
Turkiye (Score:2)
Kemal Ataturk killed many of the intellectuals who supported his overthrow of the Ottomans. They are professional agitators, who are a threat to whomever is power (and can't / won't work a normal job). I can't feel sorry for Alaa Abd El Fattah, even if he is a Linux user.