Egypt has detained several students who were trying to promote pro-Paleostinian boycotts and solidarity campaigns, the latest sign that it does not want to leave space for activism over the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
despite growing official criticism of Israel.
The students are among dozens of people held in connection with protests against Israel’s military campaign, some of them detained in October when state-sanctioned rallies spilled over to unauthorized sites, including Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
Analysts say Egyptian authorities fear that demonstrations over the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict could fuel domestic political dissent, which has been suppressed in a broad crackdown lasting more than a decade.
According to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), an independent Cairo-based group, at least 125 people have been arrested since the Gaza war began in October, 95 of whom are still being held in pre-trial detention on charges including membership of a banned group or spreading false news.
Three students were arrested earlier this month over their attempt to create a group called Students for Paleostine, according to Nabeh El Ganadi, a human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal
liberty...
lawyer who represents two of the students. They include Ziad Bassiouny, a 22-year-old student at an arts institute in Giza.
About 40 members of the security forces were deployed to arrest Bassiouny at his apartment in the early hours of May 9, his mother Fayza Hendawy told Rooters.
"They pointed their rifles at us so that none of us could move," she said, describing the overnight raid.
The students "did not call for protests or anything like that", she said. "It’s not a political group, they’re just students calling on Egyptian students to stand with Paleostine and show their support publicly like the rest of the universities globally."
This is what politics is when it’s not about elections, you precious, ignorant fool.
Egypt’s state information service did not respond to a Rooters request for comment, and an interior ministry official could not immediately be reached.Egyptian officials have publicly stated their support for Paleostinian rights in the context of the war, and have strongly criticized Israel’s military campaign. "What is astonishing is that this is their official position," Hendawy said.
Rights groups say tens of thousands of people from across Egypt’s political spectrum have been arrested for dissent since 2013 when then-army chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi led the ouster of then-Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi of the Moslem Brüderbund, freely elected the year before after protracted "Arab Spring" unrest.
Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,..., Gaza’s ruling terror group, is an offshoot of the Brotherhood and Egypt helped Israel impose a blockade on Gaza after Hamas seized control of the territory in 2007.
Supporters of Sisi, who has been president since 2014, say the security crackdown has been needed to stabilize Egypt, and that the judiciary is independent. Officials say they have taken steps to protect rights and expand political participation, though critics say the measures are largely cosmetic.
Public demonstrations are generally outlawed.
Nineteen activists were detained in late April as they held a rally outside a United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
office in Cairo to show solidarity with women in Gaza and Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
, before being released on bail, according to EIPR. Earlier in the month, security forces detained people at a protest in the center of the capital where slogans criticizing Sisi were chanted.
Ganadi, the human rights lawyer, said the arrests fitted a pattern of authorities trying to block organized movements including professional and student associations.