Middel
East Monitor (MEMO) bracht afgelopen dinsdag het bericht dat de
Egyptische mensenrechtenactivist Wael Abbas om 4 uur 's ochtends is
gearresteerd en geblinddoekt werd afgevoerd naar een onbekende
bestemming..........
Abbas
is al vaker opgepakt voor het geven van zijn mening over de corruptie
en de zware mensenrechtenschendingen door het leger, volgens hem de
enige machthebber in Egypte.
Abbas
wordt beschuldigd van het brengen van 'fake news' (nepnieuws) en het lid zijn van
een verboden organisatie, de standaard redenen die door de Egyptische
junta wordt gegeven na dergelijke arrestaties...... Wel maakt dit
duidelijk waartoe de hysterie rond 'fake news' kan leiden...... Overigens de term 'fake news' is welbewuste geïntroduceerd door
de machthebbers en de reguliere (vooral westerse) media, de grote verspreiders van
'echt' fake news.....
Dit
alles in de strijd tegen de sociale media, waar men tot bijna op het
uur nauwkeurig kan bijhouden wat er echt gebeurd in ons land en de
wereld in het geheel, i.p.v. te worden voorgelogen door politici,
'opiniemakers', 'deskundigen' en de reguliere media, die braaf
herhalen wat ons moet worden voorgekauwd, zodat de huidige inhumane neoliberale
status quo gehandhaafd kan worden.........
Niet voor niets ook dat westerse landen nog amper kritiek hebben op de enorme mensenrechtenschendingen in Egypte, men is in feite jaloers op Egypte en zou maar wat graag ook in eigen land de critici het zwijgen op willen leggen...... Tja voor je het weet schrikt het grootste deel van het volk wakker en keert zich tegen haar landelijke regering, de regionale en lokale autoriteiten..... (het zou goddomme een keer tijd worden!) Daarom moet het volk vooral slapend en dom worden gehouden en moeten de echte nieuwsbrengers het zwijgen worden opgelegd door hen aan te wijzen als 'fake news' brengers...... Nu nog strafrechtelijke vervolging van deze mensen en we gaan verder richting politiestaat......
Lees
het volgende relaas van Middle East Monitor (MEMO) over deze zaak:
Egypt arrests prominent activist and blogger Wael Abbas
Prominent Egyptian activist and blogger, Wael Abbas [File photo]
May
22, 2018 at 6:30 pm
Prominent
Egyptian activist and blogger, Wael Abbas, was been arrested by
Egyptian authorities in the early hours of the morning.
Abbas
was taken during a 4am raid on his Cairo home and his computer and
mobile phone were seized. Following the raid, Abbas was blindfolded,
transported to an unknown location and prevented from contacting his
lawyer, according to the Arab Network for Human Rights (ANHRI).
Abbas
announced his arrest on his Facebook page
by writing “I am being detained.” His current whereabouts remains
unknown, prompting friends and followers to launch the Arabic hashtag
“where_is_Wael_Abbas”
on Twitter. Egyptian security officials have confirmed his arrest,
adding that Abbas was detained on accusations of disseminating false
news and joining an outlawed group.
Abbas
has long been vocal about the political situation in Egypt both
before and after the uprising of 2011, regularly campaigning against
torture and publishing graphic videos showing torture and police
abuse on his blog, misrdigital.com. In 2006, he was named among
the BBC’s “Most Influential Persons” and he
has previously received awards for his work from Human Rights Watch
and CNN. In 2007, his YouTube account was shut down,
resulting in the removal of hundreds of videos showing protests and
abuses by security forces. He has also been detained on a number of
previous occasions.
Former
managing editor of Daily News Egypt, Rana Allam, told Al
Jazeera: “Wael
writes all the time, and when he doesn’t write, he uses social
media to speak out and provides people with information about what is
happening around them. He doesn’t budge and has been doing what
many of us can no longer do. This is all very scary for the
government.”
Abbas’
arrest has been seen as the latest in a string of enforced
disappearances conducted by the Egyptian authorities. Journalists
have come under particularly stringent crackdowns, as just last month
Egyptian freelancer Ismail Alexandrani was sentenced to ten years in
prison by a military court in Cairo for being a member of a banned
organisation and spreading false news.
Deputy
Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ),
Robert Mahoney, said that “hauling a journalist before a military
court not only violates [Alexandrani’s] rights as a civilian but
sends a chilling message to the media that independent coverage of
political dissent and security threats will not be tolerated by
Egypt’s rulers.”
Enforced disappearances have been widely used as a tool of repression under the rule of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, the current Egyptian president who came to power my means of a military coup in 2013.
The
Egyptian Commissions for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) documented 378
cases of
enforced disappearances between August 2016 and August 2017 alone,
though numbers are believed to be higher since many families fear
that reporting disappearances could inadvertently put loved ones in
jeopardy, according to Al-Monitor.
Hierde link naar een interview met Wael Abbas van 12 juli 2013. (van MO ofwel: Mondiaal Nieuws)
