World, Egypt, 2 days to stop a mass execution‏

Dear friends,

A sham court in Egypt has just sentenced 182 people to death, but one man’s opinion could stop the killing. If we flood the Grand Mufti of Egypt with amassive global call for compassion when he visits the UK in two days, he could speak up to stop the meaningless death of hundreds. Sign now and share with everyone:

A sham court in Egypt has just sentenced 182 people to death. Hundreds more have been sentenced to death in Egypt earlier this year and this could become the biggest mass execution this century -- but one man’s opinion could stop the killings.

Egypt’s most important religious figure, Grand Mufti Allam, has 10 days to reject the decision. His opinion holds significant weight, but he has so far refused to take a strong stance against the mass death sentences. In two days the Mufti will be visiting the UK, and if we flood him with a massive global call for compassion, he could help stop the meaningless death of hundreds.

Egypt’s military regime is using political show trials to wipe out the opposition and time is running out fast - join this urgent call to save the lives of 182 people! Sign and share with everyone you know -- let’s urgently reach 1 million signatures and Avaaz will deliver the petition directly to Grand Mufti Allam when he reaches the UK:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/2_days_to_stop_a_mass_execution_/?bEESPab&v=49551

Egypt’s politically motivated trials are rampant, with death sentences and lengthy jail sentences being thrown out frivolously to kill off the opposition. From Muslim Brotherhood supporter to secular human rights defenders, the military regime is using the justice system to silence all dissent. Grand Mufti Allam is the first Mufti to be selected by his peers in Egypt, many of whom have condemned mass executions.

Earlier this year, when 528 people were sentenced to death, over 1.5 Million Avaaz members came together to call on the Grand Mufti to save their lives. An Avaaz campaigner had a meeting scheduled with the Mufti, but got detained at the airport and questioned for hours -- but our campaign hit major media and helped increase the pressure. So far nobody has been executed -- if we now use the Mufti’s appearance in Britain and flood him with a collective call for mercy, he might reconsider.

Many believe the Grand Mufti could be a force for compassion in Egypt -- Click below to sign the urgent petition to stop the mass executions now, then forward this email to friends and family: 

http://www.avaaz.org/en/2_days_to_stop_a_mass_execution_/?bEESPab&v=49551

From Brazil to Iran, our community has come together time again to stand for justice and political rights for citizens all over the world. Together, we can stand resolutely to stop the mass execution and demand justice in Egypt. 

With hope and determination, 

Pascal, Alice, Laila, Marigona, Bert, Nataliya, Ricken and the whole Avaaz team

Egypt sentenced 188 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death (BBC)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30302258

Egypt sentences 185 to death over attack (Al Jazeera)
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/12/egypt-sentences-185-death-over-attack-2014123671393723.html

Egypt: Judge Issues Mass Death Sentences (HRW)
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/12/03/egypt-judge-issues-mass-death-sentences

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World : Egypt : Widespread arrests of “Anarchists” and “Radical Leftist Activists”

پایگاه خبری تحلیلی عصرآنارشیسم

With the last contact we had with Egyptian Anarchists, they are in an emergency situation

Fascist military regime of Al Sisi / Mubarak more aggressively seeking to arrest all anarchists and any other radical left activists

According to the fascist government’s newspaper, more than 41,000 people have been arrested. Among them there are: “Alaa Abdel Alfatah” very well known blogger, and “Mahienour El-Massry“, a great woman human rights activist, women’s and workers’ rights activist, and also a Progressive lawyerand campaigner against class society

These huge numbers of arrest has happened within less than one year!! It was between July 2013 and May 2014

Repressive military regime continues to arrest all anarchists and any other radical left activists, who were involved in organising any kind of rallies or actions against fascist/military regime, who is supported by CIA-Zionism and other bloody Western powers

The intensity of the past few days has subsequently put so much pressure into the life of our dear comrades, so that the rest of them have been forced to live hidden and going underground

We Middle Eastern anarchists are asking for any kind of supports and solidarity, even if it is only a wide spread of these news

Down with military rule of Al Sisi / Mubarak

!!Abolish the reactionary forces of all religious organizations and religious rulers

!!Destroy all the power of warmongers, including CIA/USA, Zionism, Western powers, Russia and China

For a Free Egypt, Free Middle East and a Free World

Anarchist Network

۷/۰۹/۲۰۱۴

Source : http://asranarshism.com/2014/09/widespread-arrests-of-anarchists-and-radical-leftist-activists-in-egypt/

Egypt : Powerful: Egyptian Feminists Literally Shit, Bleed on ISIL Flag (NSFW)

Egyptian activist Aliaa Magda Elmahdy and an unnamed collaborator have made an incredibly bold statement against the Islamic State (ISIL).

From a writeup at Liveleak:

[Elmadhy] posted a photo to Facebook Saturday of herself and another unidentified women defecating and menstruating on an Islamic State flag while in the nude, in what appears to be a protest against the Islamist terror group’s recent advances in northern Iraq and Syria

Aliaa Magda Elmahdy did not specify why she posted the photo, though past controversies, such as a 2011 incident in which she posed in only stockings and red shoes for her blog — to protest against Egypt’s conservative culture — suggest that she was opposing the Islamic State terror group’s brutally restrictive and misogynistic ideology.

In the image, the 23-year-old feminist is seen facing the camera, while the other woman, dressed in a black hijab, has her back towards the viewer. Two presumably plastic machine guns are in the background, and the veiled woman is holding up her middle finger. The letters IS are inscribed on Elmahdy’s stomach and on the second woman’s bottom.

Read more here.

Elmahdy's Facebook feed is here. Follow her on Twitter here. Read her blog here.

When you consider what Theo Van Gogh was killed for and all the violence caused by theMohammed cartoons, this sort of imagery becomes even bolder and more powerful than it immediately appears. 

The full, uncensored image (NSFW) is below the fold here.

Bron : Nick Gillespie

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THE WORLD IS WAKING - Turkey,Bulgaria, Brazil,Egypt,

(en) Media, Egypt, The emergence of Black Blocs engulfed Tahrir Square (fr)

Members of the Black Blocs parade with Egyptian flag during clashes with police near 
Tahrir Square in Cairo Monday. 
http://www.lefigaro.fr/medias/2013/01/29/5a8b1c30-6a3e-11e2-96f3-73b5eeff1ffc-493x328.jpg 
---- Hostile to the Islamists, they see the violence as a political weapon. ---- He 
swapped his green beret to Che Guevara against a black uniform. Aside from her voice, 
hoarse and metallic, Mohammed al-Masri is unrecognizable. Leaning to one of the railings 
in Tahrir Square, "his" second home, the young rebellious pauses between "operations". 
Masked, his cronies glean some precautions before dashing headlong towards the Corniche, 
their new battleground against the forces of order. At age 21, Mohammed "the Egyptian" - 
that is the meaning of his pseudonym - is one of the leaders of the Black Blocs. These 
revolutionaries of the year III, straight inspired anarchist movements in Europe, set fire 
the night before, a police vehicle.

A new "weapons that" in addition to rampage, this weekend, the office of the website of 
the Muslim Brotherhood and the attack of the antenna Freedom and Justice Party, the 
political arm of the Brotherhood, in the city of Ismailia - which illustrates the 
lawlessness rampant fleet today in Cairo.


Radicalization of the street
"We were against violence. But today, that's all we have left! "To justify it, the nerves. 
A few minutes ago, he learned that the Attorney General has ordered the arrest of anyone 
suspected of belonging to the group. However, for this former tourist agent unemployment, 
the radicalization of the street is not free. Not since the beginning of December to 
understand. "We fought against Mubarak and against the military. Then Morsi was elected. 
But instead of saving the revolution, he was granted excessive powers. Worse, when we went 
to show our displeasure at the presidential palace, we shot. Result: ten dead and hundreds 
injured, "he rages.

Soon, a network then organized on Twitter and Facebook. Messages calling for anti-Morsi 
refuse to denounce Islamists and a political system that abuses the religion. Last 
Thursday, on the eve of the anniversary of 25 January, the Egyptian Black Blocs eventually 
emerge from the shadows: a video posted on Youtube posting, images of a cloud of black men 
to support their formal training .

With the slogan "confrontation against the fascist regime of the Muslim Brotherhood," 
accompanied by a warning to the police. Since then, the rebels are a new kind of all 
gatherings of all fights. As as protesters in Port Said and Cairo are shot, young black 
hooded join the ranks of protesters. Between rebellion and fad, this movement headless 
brings in its wake a variety of heterogeneous ex-revolutionaries, disaffected youth, the 
ultras of football, hooligans, but also women. "Before, we could distinguish the different 
actors in the dispute. Today, the tracks are blurred. Impossible to understand who is who, 
who does what. It borders on chaos, "says political scientist Emad Shahin. And if the 
Black Power Egypt already have over 20,000 fans on their page Facebook , they are also 
difficult to quantify and define.

Followers of the conspiracy theory, the Muslim Brothers accuse them of being endorsed by 
the Liberal opposition. In contrast, many activists are keen to dissociate. As the blogger 
Mahmoud Salem, aka Sandmonkey who accuses them of "delegitimizing the image of revolution, 
to peaceful purposes." Of all these criticisms, Sherif al-Sharafi has nothing to do. "The 
Front national salvation (the main opposition political coalition, Ed) is a band of 
incompetents. They failed to defend the revolution. The upcoming parliamentary elections, 
we do not believe it. We do not recognize in any politician. We called the "lost 
generation", we are treated to "thugs." But what is important is to save the honor of the 
martyrs, "suggests that student who claims to be a co-founder of the Black Blocs.

Sign of disobedience displayed in relation to power, a large "black parade" is scheduled 
on Wednesday in the Egyptian capital. The Black Blocs also evoke a mysterious operation 
"Gaber", announced Friday. "I can not tell you more. It's top secret. But I can guarantee 
you that it will be hot, "warns Sherif.

Egypt, Statement by the Libertarian Socialist Movement - In response to the indictments in Alexandria

Last Sunday, during the Alexandria court hearing which was to pronounce a verdict on 
police officers accused of killing protesters during clashes in January 2011, the police 
in charge of guarding the court began to provoke the victims' families and activists who 
had come to support them peacefully as they had done for previous hearings. After the 
provocation, the police charged the crowd violently. The charge quickly became a race to 
grab any person in the vicinity, and there were beatings and arrests everywhere. 
Thirty-one people were arrested and transferred to the notorious Al Gharbanyat prison in 
the region of the city of Borg El Arab (45 km south of Alexandria) without allowing those 
arrested to contact their relatives or lawyers. ---- Among the arestees are four of our 
comrades, although they did not participate in the support rally outside the court or in 
the clashes with the police. These comrades are:

Mohammed Izz al-Din
Amir Assad
Mohammed al-Badri
Mohammed Hussein

They were having coffee after their usual distribution of leaflets, which leads us to 
believe that their arrest was not improvised but premeditated. Because these comrades are 
amongst the most active members of the LSM, they are present at every strike and every 
demonstration and the intelligence services know them very well. The charges against the 
31 are: conspiracy to commit vandalism and the destruction of public property, as well as 
the use of violence against the forces of law and order.

This Wednesday, 23 January, there was a hearing to request that the holding period be 
extended, though the police were objecting to the prisoners being transferred, on the 
pretext that moving them would involve security problems. The prosecutor validated this 
absurd decision of the police and postponed the arraignment to Wednesday, 30 January at 
Borg El Arab court and not the Mansheya court (Alexandria) where the clashes took place. 
This decision condemns those arrested to stay another 10 days in jail without any legal 
justification. Despite this, the media and human rights organizations are silent.

We accuse the Ministry of the Interior of abuse and revenge against our comrades and the 
other arrestees, both for the violent repression and for their imprisonment without fixed 
charges for 10 days in prison under close surveillance, when they are merely supposed to 
be "on remand".

We also accuse the fascist Muslim Brotherhood government of being behind this repression 
against any person and any popular committee which claims its rights, as well as those who 
support them against the government and its acolytes.

Despite the indictment of our comrades, we will not resign ourselves to accepting the 
State's tyranny, and we appeal for solidarity from all anarchist and revolutionary 
organizations around the world. We ask that you show your support for our comrades at 
Egyptian embassies and consulates.

Our struggle will continue until the State and capitalism have been abolished.

Libertarian Socialist Movement, Egypt

24 January 2013
Translation: FdCA - International Relations Office

Related Link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%...05619

Egypt, Statement by Comrades from Cairo to the IMF (gr)

The following statement was released by Comrades from Cairo on October 30, 2012. --- Dear
friends, the next period will again face a familiar foe that many of you have and continue
to fight. International Financial Institutions (IFIs) such as the International Monetary
Fund (IMF), have long been assisting in the looting of the Egyptian economy and the
displacement of the Egyptian people. Our goal is to resist in these institutions and their
depredations. Because we know that this struggle is universal, send this letter to all
those working in solidarity against the bankers and their friends. ---- After the
revolution, these organizations put once again the target of the country, hoping to
consolidate and extend their control. Citing "economic instability", they want to impose
their program in Egypt - an affordable solution that will increase, once again, the gap
between rich and poor and will endanger the livelihood of millions of people.

What we call "instability" is nothing other than the revolt of the base that opposes the
status quo of political and economic hegemony of the Egyptian state.

The real problem is that we have yet to remove them - trained to International Financial
Institutions - economists continue to manage the ministries and our banks, and the new
leadership of Egypt maintains a neoliberal logic of governance. The Muslim Brotherhood,
the generals, bureaucrats and bankers have the same intentions in mind: continuing
exploitation, theft and commercialization of natural and human resources of the country.

While some of the key leaders of the Brotherhood have promoted neoliberal policies years
ago, shortly after taking power, the organization officially changed its by-religion
positions against the IMF loan, citing economic "necessity". In practice, this means
priority requirements of banks and financial institutions and not on policies that enhance
social justice for the Egyptians. Moreover, while the IMF states that the loan has
conditions, a "package of economic reforms" carried out by the lackeys of the Egyptian
economic system must be approved by the Fund prior to the loan disbursed. Indeed, without
conditions ...

IMF may be the most obvious creditor with expansionist tendencies, but it is not only the
creation and maintenance of unequal economic, cultural and territorial relationship, and
based on domination and subordination. Just as dangerous are institutions such as the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Bank and European Investment aiming to
commercialize, privatize and plunder everything from transport and electricity to the
Nile. Many of these banks have argued for years our dictators, applauding their efforts to
subjugate us, the earth and our water, to private capital.

Egypt is no exception. The revolution in South Africa against apartheid was considered a
threat to economic stability - the new leadership that emerged boasted revolutionary
credentials that enabled the implementation of the neoliberal project, which exceeded the
colonialists predecessors. Following his election victory, with promises of progressive
programs, Lula, President of Brazil, presents a growing neoliberal policies "rinsed" with
charity projects for an increasingly impoverished underclass. The same happened in India
when economic policies, to help the country decided to enter global markets, led thousands
of farmers into debt and losing their livelihoods, while increasing stratification between
rich and poor. And the examples continue. Across the world, these International Financial
Institutions and the Nordic governments that support them, exploiting the uncertainty of
the "post-revolutionary" era by imposing austerity measures and tightening its grip on the
nations that rise up against these control systems.

Egypt is no exception. Their solution is our problem, "economic stability" is the misery
and exploitation us - why they rebel. If we are all together we can strengthen our
position towards them.

We recognize the origin of this fight against international financial institutions and the
IMF: A worldwide network of inspired people and activists, of which we are part. Today, we
in Egypt are under attack and imminent threat, and we have decided to fight.

For those who have similarly become the target of the IMF and the International Financial
Institutions and fight against these predators, let's find ways to combine and unite our
forces against them loans at local and global levels.

For the others, we ask you to complain to banks located in your countries, and use
creative resistance and direct action strategies so that we can put an end together, the
injustices and oppression imposed by these institutions.

No boss, no creditors!

Sincerely,

The Comrades from Cairo

comradesfromcairo@gmail.com

* Translation: filistina
Related Link: http://filistina.wordpress.com

Bron : A-infos-en@ainfos.ca

Egypt, Alexandria, confrontation in front of state council court 20.10.12

Latest developments of Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) case, during the discussion of HPH
false contract case with Alexandria port authorities, the Management of HPH local branch
mobilized more than 400 personals mostly paid thugs and minority of absent workers whose
being incited by HPH local office to stand against their Fellow workers and their rights,
after the court start to discuss the case HPH mob start to attack workers of Alexandria
Container and Cargo Handling Company, police intervention prevent the escalation of the
situation, however after police separate thugs and workers, PHP mob stated that they were
here today to assault Libertarian socialists movement members because they are the reason
why they gonna lose the case. ---- We as a movement we don't pay attention to these calls,
and it will never put us down, it will make us more strong between the lines of the
workers against the international capitalism brutality the close allies of local
corruption, it should be noted that the case has .been postponed to 29th of December, for
final decision.

Bron : a-infos-en@ainfos.ca

Egypt: New Law Keeps Military Trials of Civilians

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  Anti-military protesters march towards the Peoples' Assembly during a rally to stop the head of state from sending civilians for military trials in Cairo, on May 6, 2012.
  © 2012 Reuters

It’s shocking that this elected parliament has failed to take the basic step of protecting Egyptian civilians against an inherently unfair military justice system. Parliament’s failure to ban a major abuse of the military government betrays campaign promises to deliver justice to all Egyptians.

Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch

12,000 Tried by Military in 2011, Hundreds More Cases Pending

(New York) – Egypt’s parliament on May 6, 2012, approved amendments to the Code of Military Justice that failed to end the unprecedented expansion of military trials of civilians, despite pleas for reform from the legal and human rights communities, Human Rights Watch said today. In 2011 more than 12,000 civilians, including children, faced unfair military trials which fail to provide the basic due process rights of civilian courts, more than the number of military trials of civilians during 30 years of rule by former president Hosni Mubarak.

The military has continued to try civilians before military tribunals in 2012 despite promises to limit the practice. More than 300 civilians arrested since May 4 in Cairo during the clashes near the ministry of defense in Cairo are now also scheduled for military trials.

“It’s shocking that this elected parliament has failed to take the basic step of protecting Egyptian civilians against an inherently unfair military justice system,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “Parliament’s failure to ban a major abuse of the military government betrays campaign promises to deliver justice to all Egyptians.”

International human rights law bans trials of civilians before military courts. Despite this, until now Egypt has maintained its 1966 Code of Military Justice (CMJ), which permits military trials of civilians in various circumstances set out in Articles 5 (civilians present in an area where the military are deployed), 6 (presidential referral) and 7 (if one of the parties is military personnel). In addition, Article 8 (bis) (1) allows military tribunals to try juveniles when accompanied by an adult who is subject to military jurisdiction, while Article 48 gives the military justice system sole competence to determine its jurisdiction.

The amendments parliament passed on May 6 limit only the right of the president to refer civilians to military tribunals and fail to address the broad discretion given to the military in Articles 5 and 7 to try civilians, Human Rights Watch said. Parliament also only changed a few words in Articles 8 and 48, without addressing the extremely problematic substance of the two provisions, which allow children to be tried before military tribunals.

The legislative and constitutional affairs committee of the People’s Assembly, Egypt’s lower house of parliament, had during the past three months discussed reforming the CMJ based on proposed amendments drafted by SCAF General Mamdouh Shaheen, who represented the government in parliament. Two members of the committee, Mohamed al-Omda and Hussein Ibrahim, had submitted proposals with additional suggested amendments that would allow sentences issued by military courts to be appealed before civilian courts. But parliament’s rules of procedure, which date from the Mubarak-era parliament that was dominated by one party, give precedence to government-proposed drafts, and the committee failed to adopt the members’ proposals.

Shaheen’s proposed amendments only limited the right of the president to refer civilians to military tribunals. He told the legislative committee on March 19 that this provision had been “imposed on the military by former president Hosni Mubarak” and that the SCAF “had frequently tried to change it.” Shaheen rejected MPs’ demands to amend Article 48, which states that the military justice system is solely competent to determine its own jurisdiction, saying in a televised debate in parliament that “the provision just needs to be narrowed to guarantee the security of the armed forces against [civilians] who try to blow up a tank or steal ammunition because this would destroy the military justice system.”

Over the past year the SCAF has consistently stated that it has the right to try civilians before military courts on the basis of the Code of Military Justice. In a live television interview on a local station, ON TV, on April 11, General Ismail Etman, the military’s head of Morale Affairs, said that “in cases where it affects the security of the armed forces or the security of the country, such as thuggery, looting, or destruction of property, theft, and especially if one of the parties is a military officer, we transfer it to military trials to be looked into immediately.”

“The SCAF-proposed amendments were the usual half-hearted, cosmetic attempts by the military to respond to criticism without limiting the military’s discretion,” said Whitson. “The failure of MPs who were the primary victims of military trials under Mubarak to end such a system undermines faith in their desire to push for reform.”

In the first eight months of its rule, the SCAF tried 12,000 civilians before military courts, more than the total number of trials of civilians before military courts under Mubarak. Under the Mubarak government, military trials of civilians were reserved for high-profile political cases, such as the 2008 conviction of the former deputy guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Khairat al-Shatir, and 24 others; and these were usually on the basis of referrals by the president.

“The Egyptian people sacrificed their lives and security for a government that would safeguard their rights, but apparently the parliament they elected is interested only in protecting the military,” said Whitson.

Human Rights Watch strongly opposes any trials of civilians before military courts, where proceedings do not protect basic due process rights or satisfy the requirements of independence and impartiality of courts of law. It has called upon Egypt’s new parliament to amend the code of military justice to restrict the jurisdiction of military courts to trials of only military personnel charged with offenses of an exclusively military nature.

Human Rights Watch has also recommended that the CMJ be amended to explicitly state that the public prosecutor shall be competent to investigate complaints regarding military abuse and to allow members of the military to be tried before civilian courts in cases of abuse and ill-treatment. Otherwise, Human Rights Watch said, there will never be full accountability for serious human rights abuses committed by the military over the past year, including torture, virginity tests and the killing of protesters at Maspero.

Bron : Human Rights Watch