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.
Categories: Egypt, Human rights.
4 Responses to “3alaa asks for your help to free his friends”
- 1 Pingback on Jul 1st, 2006 at 11:59 pm
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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.