[fse-esf] Statement of Solidarity - the latest news from Egypt

[Phil Butland]

  A Call to all The Honest People Who Love Freedom .
   
   
  We Need your Solidarity & your Support in any way you can .
  Here is the Situation now in Egypt , Please Read & Circulate .  
   
  All events in Egypt point to the swiftly cascading natural and man-made disasters, terrorist bombings  , political movement , recurring sectarian conflict , and economic malaise , all mingling in a portentous brew . Murmurs abound that Mubarak 's regime is in its final throes that delaying local elections , swiftly renewing state of emergency law , and repeatedly cracking down on protests are signs of the beginning of the end . 
   
  Predictably , current events are compared to the combustible final years of Sadat 's tenure , when the tussle between an increasingly irrational president and an angry , organised society ended so abruptly , violently , and dramatically . 
   
   
  The security forces disanbanded the peaceful vigil in support of the  Reform -Judges maintained by Kifaya , Al-Ghad , Al-Karama , Freedom Now , and allied civil society groups , including University Professors , Doctors , Engineers , Journalists , Lawyers & Judges Such as Judge : " Mahmoud Abdel Latif HAMZA" & another Judge called " Ashraf ", Amid screams , sobs and cries of " Down with Hosni Mubarak" ."Down with Habib Al-Adli"  riot police cornered protestors as plainclothed , beated them , insulted them , draggled them , stall their mobile phones , Cameras , then agents removed them one by one  handcuffed to the back & blind foldedwhile bleeding from every were to the Transfer Trucks under arrest .
  in a final , eerie scene , police peeled off the huge Egyptian flag that demonstrators had strung up to frame their vigil .
   
  Two days later another group was arrested , after the same scene repeated , then a few more arrested , ( 3 different groups of activists were arrested in a period of  5 days that the number now is around 60 among the most cultivated Intellectuals of Egypt . The latest group was arrested the day before yesterday while they were going as eye witnesses of the events to testify against the police who brutaly beated all of them & also in support with the same two Reform -Judges , in a hearing ) This is when they were arrested & this time among them was 3 ladies .
   
  We are preparing now for the gathering of tomorow morning in front of the Hight Court House for the Disciplinary Hearing of the two frontline figures in the Judicial Independence movement judges "Hisham Al-Bastawissy" & " Mahmoud Mekki" , The disciplinary board will determine their "Competence" to retain their judicial posts . 
  We expect the Riot Police to do a Slaughter tomorrow & to arrest a huge number of us . so if you don't hear from us within the next two days , you should expect the news , either we are arrested ,or in hospitals or dead . But they still wont intimidate us , we'll get our freedom cost what it may.......
   
  Another news that we just heard , that the Police officers had presented a deposition against the detainees to the Public Prossecutor , Consellor " Maher Abdel Wahed "accusing them of waging an assault on them .  
  This deposition is the answer of the Police against the deposition of the detainees in which they accuses the Riot Police & their Karate Squads that they wage an intentionnaly assault on them .  
  & instead of investigating the two depositions together as part of same case , the public Prosecutor  separated between them , as a first step , to  present the detainees to a prosecutor as the aggressors not as the aggressed . So all of a sudden , with a fake testimony against a victim , the victim becomes the defendant & the defendant becomes the victim .This is the Justice Mubarak Type . 
   
  As for the latest about the detainees , they were all presented to the National Security Prosecutor , in a step to find them any accusations . all had a prologed detention of 15 days in custody 
   As  Political detainees they should be treated properly , but when Hisham Mubarak's Human Rights center collected money , bought them Food , Clothes & Medicine . The authorities refused to let anything goes to them in prisons ,while their clothes were teared apart & became completly dirty when they were beatten .Some of them have special health conditions , some are young & still High school & University students , soon to have their Final exams , that they would miss if they stay under such conditions .  they want to prevent them from all the Human Natural rights , & now 40 of them are in a hunger strike since 5 days .
   
  And we expect worse in the days to come .
   
  There my friends . This is the latest in details .
   
  Best Regards.
  Suzanne Esmat
    
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