Free Monem … We will never be silenced !
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Archive for May, 2007
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09
May
Free Monem Podcast
On May 8, Free Monem campaign member Mary Joyce was interviewed by Mark Fonseca Rendeiro, an activist-blogger, podjournalist, vlogger, and citizen reporter living in Amsterdam (pictured above). You can listen to the resulting podcast here.
Topics discussed include: Monem and his work, the Muslim Brotherhood, other jailed bloggers in Egypt, how much expression is too much expression, and tools for freeing Monem. The podcast was originally posted here on Mark’s Citizen Reporter website.
One note: The podcast’s musical intro is 2min 50sec long, so just hang in there.
Second note: Although Mary says in the podcast that Egypt had elections in 2004, elections were actually held in 2005.
Free Abdel-Monem Mahmoud - Get involved !
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08
May
SOS from Monem
We got the following from our friends in Ikhwan-web who were able to see Monem today.
Monem’s detention extended
Today, Monem’s detention was extended 15 days by State Security prosecutor of Tagammu Khames - Nasr City. State Security troops surrounded prosecutors’ compund and denied supporters access to building. Lawyers raised concerns that Monem and MB students are being locked in same over-crowded cells with criminial prisoners who assault and sexually harass them, although their case is obviously a political one and should be detained separately.
SOS
Monem told Ikwanweb that together with his colleagues, they started hunger strike today to protest maltreatment while being upheld with criminal prisoners and drug dealers.
Monem pointed out the deteriorated living and health conditions inside Torah Mahkoum prison and described them as “unbearable by any human being” with wide spread of scabies, HIV and other infectious diseases.
Today Monem confirmed that his detention came after web-publishing of his own torture experience on the hands of Egyptian state security men during his previous detention, and dismissed government’s false accusations of financing and organising a military show which never happened.
Finally, Monem calls for Rights and Civil Society Organisations to pressure the Egyptian government for releasing him and his colleagues.
Update 1: Monem’s detention was extended another 15 days
Monem is being re-interrogated by a State Security prosecutor at Al Tagammu Al Khames compound, outskirts of Cairo, at the moment. The Q&A process is usually farce since the decision is a political one. We are following the news and will be updating you shortly. We are also waiting for statements from his lawyers on his condition after earlier report of hunger strike.
Keep checking this page.
Human Rights Watch issued a statement May 3rd in which Joe Stork, HRW Deputy Director -MENA, said “Egypt’s sorry record of torture is only made worse by its practice of punishing journalists who dare to speak about it.”
The statement came after Howaida Taha, Al Jazeera reporter was sentenced 6 months in prison for producing a documentary on Egyptian authorities systematic torture of citizens.
Human Rights Watch
Egypt: Prison for Al-Jazeera Journalist Who Exposed Torture
Need to Reform Laws Used to Silence Critics
(Cairo, May 3, 2007) – The sentencing of Al-Jazeera journalist Huwaida Taha Mitwalli to six months in prison for her reporting on torture in Egypt makes a mockery of World Press Freedom Day, Human Rights Watch said today.
Mitwalli, an Egyptian national who also reports for the London-based daily Quds al-Arabi, was convicted by a Cairo criminal court on May 2 for “possessing and giving false pictures about the internal situation in Egypt that could undermine the dignity of the country” in connection with an Al-Jazeera documentary about torture in Egypt. The court also fined her 20,000 Egyptian pounds (US$3,518).
Continue reading ‘HRW: Egypt Need to Reform Laws Used to Silence Critics’
Monem’s Lawyer, Mr. Islam Lotfy, strongly dismissed Egyptian authorities claims that Monem is only detained for belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood group and said in a statement to Ikhwan Web “charges mentioned in Abd Al-Moneim’s state security investigation report are: that Abd Al-Moneim published torture reports and that he met international human rights organizations like the Amnesty International.”
Egyptian Regime Still Showers Moneim With Fake Allegations
Saeed Abbadi, Ikhwanweb - Cairo, Egypt
May 6, 2007
Al-Masri Al-Yom Newspaper quoted, in its Friday issue, the Human Rights Watch’s report around the prison sentence ruling against Aljazeera journalist Howaida Taha and the groundless detention of colleague Egyptian blogger Abdul Moneim Mahmoud; the newspaper reported also the Egyptian authorities’ denial that Abd Al-Moneim was detained due to posting torture issues or for meeting human rights organizations .
For his part, Fadi Al-Qadhi, the organization’s member in Cairo said that the Egyptian authorities refuse to meet any human rights organization and refuse any cooperation whatsoever with them; consequently, no dialogue was held with the government over this issue.
In a related context, lawyer Islam Lotfi, a member of Abd Al-Moneim’s defense panel said that the Egyptian government is continuously falsifying facts, specially those related to human rights violations .
Continue reading ‘Lawyer: Monem is detained for web-publishing on torture and meeting Amnesty International’
Below is an article published today, May 7, 2007, on the Muslim Brotherhood English website.
Blogger and journalist Abdel Monem Mahmoud and 23 other detained students from the Institute of Agricultural Engineering threatened to begin a hunger strike on Tuesday May 8, to protest their inhumane imprisonment conditions and the endless cycle of intimidations by criminal prisoners which reached to the point of sexual harassment, and the disgraceful inaction by the prison administration.
In a statement released by Monem and other political detainees on Monday, they demanded their immediate release and dropping all the trumped up charges against them, accusing the prison administration of adopting a new strategy of psychological torture by allowing and encouraging criminal prisoners to intimidate and harass them.
Among the list of other inhumane imprisonment conditions the statement cited are,
1-Confinment for 23 hours a day in overcrowded cells where an average of 22 inmates are kept in 10×22 feet cells infested with bugs with only one extremely filthy bathroom to share.
2-Numerous assaults by criminal prisoners and thugs, including sexual harassment and verbal abuse.
3-Use of illegal drugs inside prison cells by criminals and drug dealers, and the produced smoke which makes it very difficult to even breath an already polluted air, in addition to extremely foul language and screaming all night by intoxicated thugs which became a source of psychological agony.
4-Poor medical care in handling life threatening and contagious medical conditions, including skin diseases and HIV. Four cases of chicken pox and measles were denied appropriate care and hospital admission.
The statement also complained that the students who were mostly preparing for their final exams, surrendered their school books to the prison administration in protest, since it became impossible for them to study in such awful environment
The statement concluded by calling on the Attorney General, the National Council on Human Rights and all human rights groups to intervene to protect the life and dignity of the students.
Attorney Islam Lotfy stated to Ikhwanweb that the “Al Mahkom” prison where Monem and his fellow political prisoners are kept is designated for the most vicious criminals and known for its inhumane conditions. He added that several cases of TB and HIV have been detected among prisoners and the government apparent lack of action and poor medical care inside the prison put his clients’ life in danger.
According to Lotfy, several complaints have been filed to the prison administration and government officials to keep political detainees separate from criminal prisoners but nothing was done. The government seems to be adopting a new strategy by letting others do their dirty work by inflicting psychological torture on its political opponents who have been detained only for their views and opinions.
Monem was arrested on April 15 along group of students from the Institute of Agricultural Engineering and charged with belonging to an illegal organization [MB] and by reporting information that defame the regime and threaten national security.
For more information, please contact,
-Attorny Islam Lotfy at 002-010-771745 (mobile)
-Mohammad Ghozlan, Kawakby Foundation For Democracy and Development at 002-010-2040116 (mobile)
