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The first Palestinian above all others is Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Let be accursed any gospel other than that which was preached at the beginning, received not from man but from Christ Jesus, thou alone, in whom we have redemption through thy all holy infinitely pure and undefiled blood, the remission of our sins, who in the future shall recreate the heavens and the earth, called by thine special choice, who before hoped in Christ with all who heard the word of truth and believed, sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise, who is the pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of the possession, for the praise of his glory, in faith in the Lord Jesus, and of love for all the saints in unceasing intercession of all the elect angels and saints of God, virgins, with all thanksgiving, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may grant us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in deep knowledge of him; the eyes of our minds being enlightened, to know the hope of his calling, the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and the exceeding greatness of his power towards us who believe, according to the working of his mighty power wrought in Christ the only first born from the dead in the flesh raised above all things he made subject under his feet, we who hold him the head directly and no other, Christ Jesus our only Lord and Saviour immortal son of the immortal Father in the unity and power and bond of love of the immortal Holy Spirit our Paraclete unto the ages of the ages. Amen.

The Final Trial: Jesus Christ begotten of the Father - not made

A prayer of Isaias the Prophet.

Is. 26: 9-21

(Isaias' prophecy, which is also his prayer.)

O Lord our God, grant us peace. Out of the night my spirit waketh at dawn unto Thee, O God; for Thy commandments are a light upon the earth. Learn righteousness, all ye that dwell upon the earth. For the ungodly man hath come to an end; every one that learneth not righteousness upon the earth shall not be able to do truth; let the ungodly be taken away, that he may not see the glory of the Lord. O Lord, Thine arm is lifted up, and they knew it not; but when they know it, let them be put to shame. Zeal shall lay hold upon an untaught people, and now fire shall devour the adversaries. O Lord our God, bestow Thy peace upon us, for Thou hast given all things unto us. O Lord our God, take us for Thy possession. O Lord, we know no other beside Thee; we call upon Thy name. But the dead shall not see life, neither shall physicians raise them up; therefore hast Thou brought wrath upon them, and hast slain them, and hast taken every man of them away. Bring more evils upon them, Lord; bring more evils upon them that are glorious upon the earth. O Lord, in trouble we remembered Thee; with small affliction was Thy chastening with us. And as a woman in travail draweth nigh to be delivered, and crieth out in her travail, so have we become in the presence of Thy beloved. We have conceived, O Lord, because of Thy fear, and have suffered pangs, and have brought forth the spirit of Thy salvation, which we have wrought upon the earth. We shall not fail, but all those that dwell upon the earth shall fail. The dead shall arise, and they that are in the tomb shall awake, and they that are upon the earth shall rejoice. For the dew which Thou sendest is healing unto them; but the land of the ungodly shall perish. Go, my people, enter into thine inner chamber, shut thy door, hide thyself for a little season [during the Great Tribulation, hidden in mountains and dens and caves of the earth - there is NO secret rapture which is only an heretical apostate Lurianic Talmudic Judaic doctrine], until the anger of the Lord shall pass away.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

And see: The Abomination of Desolation

Note in the below that this is a description of the evil that precedes the Antichrist who is the Abomination of Desolation. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ then comes after the reign of Antichrist has proceeded for a while. Antichrist, his reign and the False Prophet and all their followers are then destroyed by the Second Coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ from heaven with all His elect Angels and sent to hell forever. The saints will then reign with Our Lord Jesus Christ at their head on earth forever.

Palestine, which is properly the Holy Land for in it walked God in the flesh, Jesus Christ, and there He allowed Himself to be sacrificed for the salvation of those who profess Him from the heart and with the mouth, is a miniature of all the evil that has come upon the earth and there will the final evil be concentrated in its fullness and rule from there for a short time.

From: The Abomination of Desolation

Writing in the second century, St. Hippolytus wrote the following about the evil that will abound before the coming of Antichrist:

The temples of God will be like houses, and there will be overturnings of the churches everywhere. The Scriptures will be despised, and everywhere they will sing the songs of the adversary. Fornications, and adulteries, and perjuries will fill the land; sorceries, and incantations, and divinations will follow after these with all force and zeal. And, on the whole, from among those who profess to be Christians will rise up then false prophets, false apostles, impostors, mischief-makers, evil-doers, liars against each other, adulterers, fornicators, robbers, grasping, perjured, mendacious, hating each other. The shepherds will be like wolves; the priests will embrace falsehood; the monks will lust after the things of the world; the rich will assume hardness of heart; the rulers will not help the poor; the powerful will cast off all pity; the judges will remove justice from the just, and, blinded with bribes, they will call in unrighteousness.

St. Hippolytus of Rome, Treatise on the end of the world and on Antichrist

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Baptism

Traditional Catholic Prayers: Baptism

MATTHEW 28

CHAPTER XXVIII.

The resurrection of Christ. His commission to his disciples.

1 And *in the end of the sabbath, when it began to dawn towards the first day of the week,

18 And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.

19 *Going, therefore, teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit;

20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.

"Consummation of the world," - the end of this age of grace and the beginning of the eternal ages with Christ reigning visibly. This is the end of the eschaton and the beginning of the eternal recreated heavens and the earth and will begin when Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ returns from heaven in the same flesh He rose with and ascended into the third heaven with, seated at the right hand of the Father. His return will be with all of His elect angels. He will raise and judge all men in the flesh and then recreate the heavens and the earth, which in that state will last that way for eternity. There will NOT be any sin in the new heavens and earth, so prepare now by confessing the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and be baptized as commanded above and shown how to baptize below and live Holy and Godly lives in sincerity and humility and meekness waiting for the Lord when He returns so that we are not like the five foolish virgins but are like the five wise virgins.

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1: A.D. 30.; Mark xvi. 1.; John xx. 1.

19: Mark xvi. 15.

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Method of Baptism

From the Didache (49 A.D. Council of Jerusalem):

Chapter 7. Concerning Baptism.

And concerning baptism, baptize this way: Having first said all these things, baptize the one to be baptized into Jesus Christ in "the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit," in running water. But if you have no running water, baptize into other water [still water]; and if you cannot do so in cold water, do so in warm. But if you have neither, pour out water three times upon the head onto the one to be baptized saying at that time "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." But before the baptism, if possible, let the baptizer fast, and the baptized, and whoever else can; but you shall order the baptized [when there is time] to fast one or two days before.

Baptism can and should always be performed immediately when there is danger of death of the one to be baptized. For instance, impending martyrdom or possible death causing illness.

Israel is the Nation of the Antichrist = Dajjal: Totally reject Dajjal and instead Come to Christ and receive the water of life

The Muhammad of the Almighty Triune God of The Final Trial would not stand in the way of Muslims coming to Our Lord Jesus Christ and being baptized in Him as the Injeel commands. The Mohammed of Ahmadiyya is the same as the Mohammot of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah and both are antichrists and contradict the clear commands of God in the Injeel and Taurat and Quran.

Noble Quran

003.045 Behold! the angels said: "O Mary! God giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him: his name will be Christ Jesus, the son of Mary, held in honour in this world and the Hereafter and of (held in honor by the company of the prophets and saints) those nearest to God;

003.046 "He shall speak to the people in childhood and in maturity. And he shall be (adhered to by the company) of the righteous."

003.047 She said: "O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man hath touched me?" He said: "Even so: God createth what He willeth: When He hath decreed a plan, He but saith to it, 'Be,' and it is!

003.048 "And God will teach him [Jesus Christ] the Book [alkitaba = all sacred writing from God Most High] and Wisdom [hikma = sophia = uncreated wisdom of God one with His Holy Spirit], the Law [Taurat fulfilled in the Gospel of Jesus Christ] and the Gospel [of Jesus Christ],"

As the Word of God Jesus Christ willed to learn in His Incarnation what He already possessed and knew prior to His Incarnation as part of His kenosis (emptying out of Himself and taking upon Himself our nature while in no way losing anything of what He already was as God by nature and Son of God as the Second Person of the undivided Trinity) and as an example to us of how we in humility must follow God the Father and the Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.

Baptism

The Final Trial: Traditional Catholic Prayers: Baptism

Traditional Catholic Prayers: Baptism

MATTHEW 28

CHAPTER XXVIII.

The resurrection of Christ. His commission to his disciples.

1 And *in the end of the sabbath, when it began to dawn towards the first day of the week,

18 And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.

19 *Going, therefore, teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit;

20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.

"Consummation of the world," - the end of this age of grace and the beginning of the eternal ages with Christ reigning visibly. This is the end of the eschaton and the beginning of the eternal recreated heavens and the earth and will begin when Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ returns from heaven in the same flesh He rose with and ascended into the third heaven with, seated at the right hand of the Father. His return will be with all of His elect angels. He will raise and judge all men in the flesh and then recreate the heavens and the earth, which in that state will last that way for eternity. There will NOT be any sin in the new heavens and earth, so prepare now by confessing the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and be baptized as commanded above and shown how to baptize below and live Holy and Godly lives in sincerity and humility and meekness waiting for the Lord when He returns so that we are not like the five foolish virgins but are like the five wise virgins.

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1: A.D. 30.; Mark xvi. 1.; John xx. 1.

19: Mark xvi. 15.

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Method of Baptism

From the Didache (49 A.D. Council of Jerusalem):

Chapter 7. Concerning Baptism.

And concerning baptism, baptize this way: Having first said all these things, baptize the one to be baptized into Jesus Christ in "the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit," in running water. But if you have no running water, baptize into other water [still water]; and if you cannot do so in cold water, do so in warm. But if you have neither, pour out water three times upon the head onto the one to be baptized saying at that time "in the name of Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." But before the baptism, if possible, let the baptizer fast, and the baptized, and whoever else can; but you shall order the baptized [when there is time] to fast one or two days before.

Baptism can and should always be performed immediately when there is danger of death of the one to be baptized. For instance, impending martyrdom or possible death causing illness.

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See this for why Jesus Christ must be confessed as the Holy Word and Son of God: The Final Trial: Mary - revered by both Christians and Muslims as the vessel through whom God made the Word, Jesus Christ, Incarnate

The Muslim feast of Eid only commemorates the typological sacrifice by Abraham of Issac. That prefigured the final and only Supreme Sacrifice of Jesus Christ on His Most Holy Cross. It is only by the Sacrifice of Christ on His Cross that we are saved. Jesus Christ commanded, not suggested, that we be baptized; echoing the rest of the Church Fathers, St. Augustine noted that if someone could not be baptized even though they wanted it and did everything they could to be baptized in the water in name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, then their confession of faith is enough for their salvation. But no where are we allowed to refuse baptism.

All Muslims and everyone who will, are invited and encouraged to come to the water of life now and be baptized in the water and in the Spirit in name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and receive Communion.

For Noah and Abraham as Prophecies of Baptism in Our Only Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ see:

Traditional Catholic Prayers: THE TWELVE PROPHECIES - The Second Prophesy: Genesis 5: 32; 6; 7: 6: 11-14, 18-21, 23-24; 8: 1-3, 6-12, 15-21

Traditional Catholic Prayers: THE TWELVE PROPHECIES - The Third Prophesy: Genesis 22: 1-19

There is no evolution, to be baptized in Our Only Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ one must believe in the truth of literal Creation by God and no pantheistic syncretism with deistic design and the rest of pagan evolutionary theory.

Traditional Catholic Prayers: THE TWELVE PROPHECIES - The First Prophesy: Genesis 1: 1-31; 2: 1-2

And see the rest of the Baptismal Prophecies. They are a must.

For all Jews wishing to convert sincerely from the heart to Jesus Christ now, here is a prayer based on the biblical Hebrew of the prophets of the Old Testament and the Septuagint Greek of the Old Testament and the New Testament and Arabic.

(The Arabic, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, means the same as God Almighty, or 'O Theos 'O Pantocrator, in Septuagint Greek.)

In the below “Dam (Blood) Kadosh (Holy) bet Yeshua ha Maschiach (Jesus Christ) kanawn anawim (have mercy on Your faithful [those who turn to God by the shed Blood of Christ on Calvary])” is asking for God's forgiveness by the shed Holy Blood of Christ – which is the only forgiveness there is from God for sin.

Go here: Jews called in Christ: Begun in 2002, judged illegal 2004, Israel’s apartheid wall goes on regardless | Jews for Justice for Palestinians

And then be baptized in Christ - see above: Baptism.

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Palestine Cry: The Justice of God: Parousia of Jesus Christ Our Lord: The BROAD way to hell - forever.

The Final Trial: The Final Trial: The Truth: The coming of the Antichrist, ad-Dajjal

The Illuminati: Mani and Manichaeism - blasphemous heresy

The Illuminati: Bahai - The Illuminati - Masonic Colonialism of the Holy Land

The Illuminati: Gnosticism, Occult, Masonry, Sabbateanism, Frankist--followers of Jacob Frank, Illuminati, Rosicrucianism and Mormonism are all rooted in and intertwined in the same Diabolic paganism

Israel is the Nation of the Antichrist = Dajjal: The Holy War - The Review of Religions

Israel is the Nation of the Antichrist = Dajjal: 18 Temple Benedictions: 6 + 6 + 6 = Temple of the Antichrist

The Illuminati: You'll never think the same way again. . . The Revelation

The Final Trial: No to all Terrorists

Traditional Catholic Prayers and The Justice of God

Reason for the Antichrist's - Dajjal's - war on the Noble Sanctuary

Reason for the Antichrist's - Dajjal's - war on the Noble Sanctuary
Reason for the Antichrist's - Dajjal's - war on the Noble Sanctuary | defilement of the Noble Sanctuary - click on picture

Parousia of Jesus Christ Our Lord

See:





The Promise of His coming. His commands to prepare and be worthy.

Statement of what is happening in the world in connection with the Second Coming of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Nuzul i Isa - Qiyamah, the Parousia of Jesus Christ Our Lord.

Rv:22:7 Behold I come quickly. Blessed is he that keepeth the words of the prophecy of this book.

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Friday, March 28, 2014

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Egyptian Sniper Shoots a Female Journalist in Head

Mayada AshrafCairo - Mayada Ashraf,  an Egyptian journalist was shot in head by sniper on Friday noon while covering clashes in the northern neighbourhood of Ein Shams between security forces and supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, media reported.
Several marches were staged Friday by Morsi’s supporters across Egypt in Cairo, Giza, Alexandria, Fayoum, Beheira, Qalioubiya and Qena in reaction to the recently-announced presidential bid of ex-military chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, who carried out Morsi’s ouster.
The media reported that at least four Egyptians were killed and dozens were injured in Cairo as police used excessive force and live ammunition against the Islamists protesters.
Hundreds were arrested for chanting against Al-Sisi, the military, the police and the government. Pro-Morsi protesters consider that his removal by the army last July was “a military coup”.
Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood has rejected Sisi’s candidacy outright and a coalition of his supporters had called Friday’s protests.
“What we said nine months ago was confirmed and the mask fell off from the face of the coup leader… with the announcement of his candidacy to ‘the bloody presidency’,” it said in a statement Thursday.
Sisi “broke the oath he made before the elected president Mohamed Morsi by toppling him and made the Egyptian army enter the political arena with him,” the coalition added.
Sisi is believed to be the real power behind interim president Adly Mansour, under whose watch police have killed hundreds of Islamist protesters and detained at least 25,000 suspects since Morsi’s ouster.
The crackdown has caused international concern and outrage after 529 Morsi supporters were sentenced to death this week over deadly riots.
For those who want an end to the violence that has scared off investors and tourists, Sisi’s military background is an asset.
The army is seen as the country’s most stable institution, and Sisi can count on further aid from friendly Gulf states that have pumped billions of dollars into Egypt since Morsi’s ouster

Thursday, March 27, 2014

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Death Penalty Order Against 529 individuals Represent a Ruling Against Egyptian Judiciary as Well?

EgyptANHRI – The undersigned organizations are extremely concerned about the Minya Felony Court’s decision yesterday, Monday, March 4, to refer the cases of 529 defendants sentenced to death to the state grand mufti for his opinion. The defendants were sentenced in connection with the violence in Matay, Minya, following the dispersal of the two sit-ins held by supporters of former President Mohamed Morsi in Rabaa al-Adawiya and al-Nahda Squares. The decision, and the court’s readiness to sentence such a large number of people to death in abbreviated trials, constitutes a dangerous, unprecedented shift in the Egyptian judiciary’s treatment of such cases and represents a grave violation of both the right to a fair trial and the right to life.
The court issued this decision less than a week after the start of the trial of the defendants, who were charged in connection with violence that led to the death of Col. Mustafa Ragab, the deputy chief of the Matay police station, the attempted murder of other police officers, the theft of weapons from the police station, the destruction of public and private property, and the torching of several private cars.
The ruling was issued following only two sessions of the trial and in the absence of the defendants and their lawyers. The first session lasted only 30 minutes, as counsel for the defendants moved for the recusal of the judges hearing the case. Witnesses were not called, evidence was not presented in court, and the accused were unable to defend themselves.
The undersigned organizations note that group trials such as the case of the 529 defendants  represent a grave violation of the right to a fair trial and of other principles, most prominently the principle of individualized punishment, which is enshrined in the Egyptian constitution, including in the most recent constitutional amendments approved through a public referendum, as well as international rights conventions ratified by Egypt.

The undersigned organizations are especially concerned by this expansive use of the death penalty in light of the increasingly repressive measures taken against political dissidents of various affiliations and the proposed counterterrorism legislation that grows more authoritarian by the day. The government recently approved two counterterrorism draft laws with several dangerous provisions that lack proper legal safeguards. The draft laws make it possible to impose the death penalty for an extensive list of actions and grant broad powers to security personnel and the Public Prosecution in matters of investigation and interrogation.
We ask that all defendants be granted guarantees for a fair trial, including, first and foremost, the right to defense and to an attorney and the right to be charged with a specific offense backed by evidence, as well as adequate time to prepare a defense and response.
SIGNATORY ORGANIZATIONS:
  • 1.       Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies
  • 2.       Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
  • 3.       Hesham Mubarak Law Center
  • 4.       Egyptian Association for Community Participation Enhancement
  • 5.       Egyptian Center for Women Rights
  • 6.      Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights
  • 7.      Arab Penal Reform Organization
  • 8.       New Woman Foundation
  • 9.       Andalus Institute for Tolerance and Anti-Violence Studies
  • 10.   Nazra for Feminist Studies
  • 11.   Arab Network for Human Rights Information
  • 12.   Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression
  • 13.   Egyptians Against Religious Discrimination
  • 14.   Egyptian foundation for Advancement of the Childhood Conditions
  • 15.  Land Center for Human Rights
  • 16. The Human Rights Association for the Assistance of the Prisoners

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

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529 Morsi Backers Sentenced to Death in Egypt

death sentenceBy Sarah Benhaida – AFP – Cairo — A court ordered the execution of 529 supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi after only two hearings on Monday, in the largest such sentencing in Egypt’s modern history.
The unprecedented verdict, amid an extensive crackdown on Morsi supporters, is likely to be overturned on appeal, legal experts said.
The military-installed authorities have arrested thousands of Morsi supporters and put many of them on trial since the army deposed the Islamist on July 3.
The defendants in the southern province of Minya are part of a larger group of more than 1,200 alleged Islamists accused of killing policemen and rioting on August 14, after police killed hundreds of protesters while dispersing two Cairo protest camps.
Of the 529 defendants sentenced, 153 are currently in detention and the rest were tried in absentia. They automatically get a new trial if they turn themselves in.
Another 17 defendants were acquitted.
The verdict can be appealed at the Court of Cassation, which would probably order a new trial or reduce the sentences, legal expert Gamal Eid said.
“This sentencing is a catastrophe and a travesty and a scandal that will affect Egypt for many years,” said Eid, who heads the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information.
- ‘Judge rammed sentencing through’ -
In Monday’s session, the court referred its decision to the mufti, the government’s official interpreter of Islamic law, for ratification. The mufti has upheld death sentences in the past.
Defence lawyer Mohamed Tousson said the judge rammed through the sentencing after he was angered by a lawyer who demanded his recusal in the first session.
“He didn’t even ascertain the presence of the detained defendants, he only got to the 51st defendant,” Tousson said.
“A lawyer then demanded his recusal. He got very angry, and adjourned the trial for sentencing.”
“It’s a huge violation of defendants’ rights. It will be overturned for sure,” he said of the death sentence.
A second group of about 700 defendants, including Mohamed Badie, the supreme guide of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood movement, are due in the dock on Tuesday.
Egypt has been rocked by continuous protests by Morsi supporters and by militant attacks that have killed more than 200 members of the security forces since his overthrow.
Rights group Amnesty International says at least 1,400 people have been killed in violence nationwide, and thousands more have been arrested.
Morsi is himself currently on trial in three different cases, including one for inciting the killing of protesters outside a presidential palace while he was in office.
The army removed Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected president, after a year in office following mass street protests demanding his resignation.
- Jazeera trial resumes -
The government crackdown has also targeted prominent activists of the 2011 revolt against former president Hosni Mubarak, as well as journalists.
On Sunday, a court released on bail leftwing activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, a leading symbol of the anti-Mubarak uprising.
He had been detained for joining an unsanctioned and violent protest in November.
The targeting of activists such as Abdel Fattah and journalists has prompted fears of a return to the authoritarian practices of the Mubarak era.
Also on Monday, another court is set to hold the third hearing in the trial of a group of journalists working with the Doha-based Al-Jazeera satellite television network.
The journalists, including Australian reporter Peter Greste, are charged with spreading false news and aiding the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood.
Their trial comes against the backdrop of strained ties between Egypt and Qatar, which backed Morsi and the Brotherhood.
Journalists around the world have staged protests demanding the reporters’ release, with Washington and the United Nations also voicing their support.
Egypt’s interim president Adly Mansour has pledged to work towards a “speedy resolution of the case”.
Ibrahim Abdel Wahal, the lawyer of Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Adel Fahmy who was arrested along with Greste, told reporters that at Monday’s hearing he will insist on his client being freed on bail to receive medical attention for a broken shoulder, suffered before his arrest.

أحكام بالاعدام على 529 متهمًا من انصار مرسي في مصر
أ. ف. ب – القاهرة: أصدرت محكمة مصرية أحكامًا بالاعدام على 529 شخصاً من انصار الرئيس المصري الاسلامي محمد مرسي الذي اطاحه الجيش اثر اعمال عنف خلال الصيف، بحسب مصادر قضائية, في حين لم يتم التحقيق أو أعتقال أي من مرتكبي مجزوة رابعة العدوية والنهضة من قوات الجيش المصري والشرطة والبلطية الموالين لهم
ووحدهم 153 من المتهمين الـ529 موقوفون والباقون فارون من القضاء، بحسب المصادر التي اضافت أنه تمت تبرئة 17 من المتهمين
ويحاكم ما مجمله 1200 متهم في اعمال عنف وقعت خاصة في 14 اب/اغسطس، في مواجهات وقعت لدى فض اعتصام للاسلاميين في ميداني رابعة العدوية والنهضة في القاهرة
ويمثل هؤلاء بتهم القتل والشروع في القتل واستخدام القوة والعنف ضد موظفين عموميين، وتخريب منشآت للدولة، وحيازة أسلحة دون ترخيص، واعمال عنف أدت الى مقتل شرطيين اثنين وهجمات على املاك عامة وخاصة في 14 اب/اغسطس، بينما كانت قوات الامن تفض اعتصامًا للاسلاميين في ميداني رابعة العدوية والنهضة في القاهرة، ما ادى الى مواجهات دموية
والمحاكمة هي الاكبر منذ بدء حملة القمع بحق الاخوان المسلمين الذين ينتمي اليهم مرسي بعدما اطاح به الجيش في الثالث من تموز/يوليو.
والثلاثاء يمثل 700 متهم امام القضاء من بينهم العديد من قياديي جماعة الاخوان المسلمين خصوصاً المرشد الاعلى محمد بديع وغالبية هؤلاء ايضا فارون من القضاء ويواجهون الاتهامات نفسها
وهي اول مرة يحاكم فيها هذا العدد من المتهمين في قضية واحدة، علمًا بأن القضاء المصري ينظر في العديد من القضايا المتهم فيها اسلاميون منذ عزل الجيش مرسي في 3 تموز/يوليو اثر احتجاجات شعبية واسعة
ومنذ عزل مرسي شنت السلطات الموقتة حملة قمع بحق انصاره، اسفرت بحسب منظمة العفو الدولية عن سقوط 1400 قتيل على الاقل، اكثر من نصفهم سقطوا في فض اعتصامي الاسلاميين في رابعة العدوية والنهضة. ومذذاك، اعتقلت السلطات آلاف الاسلاميين واحالتهم على المحاكم، وفي مقدمهم اضافة الى مرسي غالبية قادة جماعة الاخوان
ويتظاهر انصار مرسي بانتظام للمطالبة بعودته الى السلطة، ولكن قوات الامن تعمد غالباً الى تفريق هذه التظاهرات ما يسفر عن صدامات بين الطرفين
ويحاكم مرسي القيادي في الاخوان في ثلاث قضايا، فيما صنفت السلطات المصرية جماعة الاخوان “تنظيمًا ارهابيًا” في كانون الاول/ديسمبر بعد الهجوم الانتحاري على مديرية شرطة المنصورة، في دلتا النيل، الذي اوقع 15 قتيلاً، علمًا بأن “جماعة انصار بيت المقدس” هي الجهة التي تبنته

Sunday, February 16, 2014

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Blast Hits Tourist Bus in Sinai, Killing 4 and Injuring 29

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Four people were killed and 29 others were injured on Sunday as an explosion ripped through a bus full of tourists on the Egyptian side of the Taba border.
Egyptian officials identified the casualties as three South Korean tourists and an
Egyptian bus driver. Almost all 33 passengers on the bus were wounded by the explosion, officials said, according to the Associated Press.
Egyptian security forces were deployed to the area, and the border crossing was closed on both sides.
Ofir GendelmanOfir Gendelman, spokesman for israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said “Five of the passengers in serious conditions from the bus explosion were transferred for treatment at the Yoseftal l hospital (Yoseftal Medical Center) in Eilat”.
The cause of the explosion was not immediately clear. The bus had arrived at the Taba crossing from the ancient Greek Orthodox monastery of St. Catherine’s in central Sinai, security officials said.
State television showed a photograph of the bus. Its windows were blown out and the roof had been partially torn off. Plumes of black smoke billowed from the site of the explosion on a palm tree-lined boulevard.
Morsi appeared in court on Sunday on charges of conspiring with foreign groups to commit terrorist acts in Egypt.

قال عوفير جندلمان، المتحدث باسم رئيس الوزراء الإسرائيلي، بنيامين نتنياهو، إنه تم نقل خمسة من المصابين في انفجار حافلة الركاب المصرية الذي وقع قرب طابا إلى تلقي العلاج في مستشفى يوسفتال في مدينة إيلات حالتهم خطيرة
وأضاف “جندلمان”، في حسابه على “تويتر”، مساء الأحد، أن نجمة داوود الحمراء تستعد في هذه الأثناء لنقل 15 جريحًا من انفجار الحافلة المصرية قرب طابا إلى مستشفى يوسفتال في إيلات

وقتل 4 أشخاص وأصيب عشرون آخرون في اعتداء بقنبلة استهدفت، الأحد، حافلة كانت تقل سياحًا “كوريين” في منفذ طابا الحدودي مع إسرائيل
وقال أحمد كامل، المتحدث باسم وزارة الصحة، إن الاعتداء أسفر عن مقتل أربعة أشخاصوإصابة آخرين
وأعلنت وزارة الداخلية في بيان أن التفجير وقع في حوالي الساعة الثانية بعد الظهر أثناء توقف إحدى الحافلات السياحية بموقف انتظار الحافلات بمنفذ طابا البري بجنوب سيناء، انتظارًا للمرور إلى الجانب الآخر
وأضاف البيان أن الحافلة كانت تقل عددًا من السائحين يحملون الجنسية الكورية وحدث الانفجار بالجزء الأمامي منها
من جهتها ذكرت مصادر إسرائيلية إن العشرات من سيارات نجمة داوود الحمراء قد وصلت إلى الحدود المصرية ترافقها تعزيزات عسكرية وشرطية مكثفة
وذكرت المصادر إن خمسة مصابين وصلوا للعلاج في إسرائيل وصفت حالتة جميعهم بالحرجة
وأضاقت أن عددا آخرا من المصابين يقدر عددهم ب 15 مصابا, سيصلون للعلاج في إسرائيل
وأفادت المصادر, أن الحدود قد أغلقت من قبل الطرفين المصري والإسرائيلي, إلا أنه وبالإتفاق مع الجانب المصري فقد تم فتح ممر للإسرائيليين المتواجدين في موقع الحدث من أجل العودة إلى ديارهم. والسؤال: ماذا كان يفعل الإسرائيليين في موقع الحدث؟؟ وهل من بينهم من متورط فيه؟؟
وأكدت المصادر أن أيا من غلإسرائيليين لم يصب بأذى, وأن سياح إسرائيل قد عادوا إلى ديارهم سالمين

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Egypt: Atrocity Crimes Perpetrated By State Bodies

مصر – منظمات حقوقية: جرائم مفزعة واعتداءات جنسية تتواطأ فيها أجهزة الدولة
aidaAida Seif al-Dawla – Egyptian Rights’ Organizations Demand Independent investigation into torture allegations – Victims speak of atrocious crimes committed by state bodies
The undersigned organizations call for an immediate, independent investigation into growing claims of the brutal torture and sexual assault of detainees held in prisons and police stations in Egypt after their arrest in demonstrations on January 25th, the third anniversary of the Egyptian revolution.
We ask that the estimated 1,000 detainees undergo an immediate medical exams and that a delegation of the undersigned organizations be permitted to conduct an independent, unconditional visit to detention facilities and meet with detainees.
Many detainees have testified to torture and sexual assaults by police that go beyond the routine abuse meted out in cases of mass arrests following demonstrations. These testimonies also  exceed complaints from detainees arrested in the last six months, during which hundreds have been arbitrarily arrested, particularly in the months of August, September and October. Continue reading.

منظمات حقوقية: شهادات الضحايا تتحدث عن جرائم مفزعة تتواطأ فيها أجهزة الدولة

عايدة سيف الدولة – تدعو المنظمات الموقعة على هذا البيان إلى تحقيق عاجل ومستقل في ادعاءات  متزايدة ومفزعة عن أعمال تعذيب وحشية واعتداءات جنسية تعرض لها محتجزات ومحتجزون في سجون وأقسام شرطة في مصر ممن تم القبض عليهم في مظاهرات الذكري الثالثة لثورة ٢٥ يناير
وطالبت المنظمات التي قدرت عدد معتقلي ذكرى الثورة بالألف شخص بالكشف الطبي العاجل على كل المحتجزين والسماح لوفد من المنظمات الموقعة بزيارة مستقلة وغير مشروطة لأماكن الاحتجاز وإجراء مقابلات معهم
وقد تواترت العديد من الشهادات عن أنماط وحشية من التعذيب والاعتداءات الجنسية يقوم به جهاز الشرطة مع المعتقلات والمعتقلين فاقت ما جاء بشهادات وشكاوى المعتقلين في الستة أشهر الماضية وهي الفترة التي شهدت اعتقال المئات  بصورة عشوائية خاصة في شهور أغسطس وسبتمبر وأكتوبر
ذكر الناشط السياسي خالد السيد في شهادته التعذيب الذي رأه في أقسام شرطة الأزبكية وقصر النيل, فضلاً عن ما تعرض له بنفسه في سجن أبو زعبل, وأكد على شهاداته المحامي الحقوقي محمود بلال والذي كان حاضرا بالتحقيق. حاول خالد السيد أن يثبت ما تعرض له من تعذيب عند عرضه على نيابة الأزبكية, فقام برفع ملابسه وكشف جسمه لإظهار الإصابات التي تعرض لها من جراء التعذيب ولكن النيابة تعنتت في إثبات التعذيب ورفضت في البداية حتى الإشارة له في المحضر, وعلل القاضي المسئول ذلك بقوله أنه قاض تجديد حبس لا غير وبعد إصرار من المحامين وافق على الإشارة في المحضر إلى أن المحامين يطلبون التحقيق في شكاوى تعذيب موكليهم ولم يثبت أي من الشهادات التفصيلية أو الإصابات الظاهرة على أجساد المعتقلين. يخشى محامو المعتقلين أن المحضر لن يتحرك أو أن النيابة ستقوم بأي تحقيق جدي في هذه الشكاوى. ولم يقم  قاض التحقيق باتخاذ أقل الإجراءات الضرورية لضمان سلامة المتهمين بنقلهم لمقر احتجاز آخر, خاصة بعد أن ذكروا أسماء الضباط الذين قاموا بتعذيبهم في قسم الأزبكية وفي سجن أبو زعبل – وأكد المحامي محمود بلال أن أحد الضباط قام بتوعد المتهمين بالانتقام منهم, في حضور القاضي المشرف على عملية التجديد, بسبب إشارتهم لتعرضهم للتعذيب على يد الشرطة
ومع تعنت النيابة في إثبات الإصابات وتوثيق التعذيب الذي تعرض له المعتقلين, قام محامو المتهمين بتقديم شكاوى للمجلس القومي لحقوق الإنسان توثق المعلومات التي نجحوا في الحصول عليها من المعتقلين الذين رووا ما حدث لهم. لقراءة المزيد: أنقر على هذا الرابط
مركز “النديم” المصري

كشف الدكتور هانى مصطفى، طبيب نفسي بمركز النديم لعلاج ضحايا التعذيب فى السجون وأقسام الشرطة، عن أن تعذيب المعتقلين والتعامل العنيف من قبل قوات الأمن زاد خلال الفترة الأخيرة عما كان فى فترة حكم الرئيس السابق الدكتور محمد مرسى وعن فترة حكم الرئيس الأسبق حسنى مبارك
وأكد زيادة عنصر التنكيل فى التعذيب والإهانة وإذلال المعتقلين، وذلك بغرض إضعاف الضحية حتى لا تقوى على ممارسة نفس الفعل الذى كانت تقوم به قبل تعرضها للتعذيب، ومن أبرز تلك الأساليب لإذلال الضحية هو “التعذيب الجنسي”، فضلاً عن الجلد بالكرباج والضرب بالهراوات والركل والصعق بالكهرباء والتسمم الدوائي وإهمال علاج المرضى
وأوضح مصطفى أن أبرز ما ينتاب الضحية التى تعرضت للتعذيب هو “اضطراب كرب ما بعد الصدمة”، ومن أبرز أعراضه تجنب الضحية لكل ما يذكره بأحداث التعذيب والشعور بالضعف والانكسار وفقدان الأمل والشعور بالعجز والذنب الشديد، فضلا عن عدم القدرة على التواصل الاجتماعى مع المحيطين به
وأضاف أن الضحايا عادة ما يصابون بالاكتئاب الحاد بجانب “اضطراب كرب ما بعد الصدمة”، وكذلك التيقظ الدائم وعدم القدرة على النوم والتوتر الشديد
وأكد الناشط الحقوقي، مالك عدلي، أن وزارة الداخلية المصرية تمارس تعذيبًا ممنهجًا مميتا ضد “المعتقلين السياسيين” في أقسام الشرطة
وقال عدلي خلال مداخلة هاتفية لفضائية “الحياة”: رصدنا حالات تعذيب، فجميع المعتقلين الذي تم القبض عليهم في 25 يناير تعرضوا لحالات تعذيب مميتة، في قسمي شرطة الأزبكية ومدينة نصر، والأكثر أن المحامين الذين ذهبوا للدفاع عن المعتقلين تم حبسهم
وأشار إلى أن ضباط قسم شرطة المعادي ألقوا القبض على ثلاثة شباب بينهم محامٍ تحت تهديد السلاح، بداعي حيازتهم لمنشورات حول آليات تقييم الدستور، وتعرضوا للتعذيب
وأكد عدلي التوصل إلى عشرات الحالات التي تعرضت للتعذيب بالسجون، وقال “لدينا تسجيلات لكل هذه الحالات وغيرهم، ونطلب محاكمة لكل المتورطين في التعذيب

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

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Egypt As A Role Model: An Opportunity Lost

open democracy-1Open Democracy – Rawia M Tawfik Amer, a lecturer at the faculty of Economics and Political science, Cairo University. She holds the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Oxford. She writes on issues of African political economy.
The January 25th uprising offered Egypt the opportunity to become a role model for peaceful transition in the region and beyond. But with the hijack of the will of the people almost completed, Egypt is moving further away from realising democracy.
The 25th of January 2011 revolution was not only about promoting the freedom and dignity of Egyptians at home, but also restoring the pre-eminence of Egypt regionally and internationally. Protestors who took to the streets for eighteen days were expressing their grievances against Mubarak’s domestic policies, and disappointment at their country’s declining role in regional politics. On the third anniversary of the revolution, Egypt seems to have lost its way towards democracy, and the opportunity to present a model of peaceful transition in the Arab world and Africa.  
The uprising promised to usher in a new phase in Egypt’s contribution to the struggle for democracy and socio-economic rights in the region and beyond. Leading Arab and African intellectuals and activists, including Khair El-Din Haseeb, Azmi Bishara, Larbi Sadiki, Mahmoud Mamdani, Horace Campbell, to mention a few, celebrated the revolution emphasizing the symbolism of Tahrir Square as a space that brought together Egyptians from different religious, political and social backgrounds to defend a common cause. In her keynote speech at the 4th European Conference on African Studies in Uppsala in June 2011, the noted African scholar Oyeronke Oyewumi criticised the media and academic labeling of the revolution as an ‘Arab spring’ insisting that it was also an ‘African spring’.
The mass demonstrations in Egypt triggered an ‘African Awakening’ that manifested itself in subsequent unnoticed protests in other African countries. In Cameroon opposition figures led demonstrations to contest Paul Biya’s life-time presidency a few days after the toppling of Mubarak. More than a year later, on the 30th anniversary of Biya’s rise to power, another wave of protests emerged, though on a more limited scale. Further north in West Africa, young activists in the Mauritanian opposition parties formed a coalition that organized protests to force the government of Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to introduce political and social reforms. The demands raised by the coalition included restructuring civil-military relations, reforming the electoral law, and introducing measures to combat corruption and nepotism. In Sudan, in spite of police crackdown against political activists, the new youth movements moved from pressuring for social justice to mobilizing for toppling the ruling National Congress Party.  In South African townships participants in service delivery protests referred to the site of their protest as Tahrir Square.
These examples, among many others, indicate that Egypt became a role model for nations seeking peaceful political and social change. In this sense, the revolution promised to help Egypt restore its regional role as an exemplar; a role that it had lost since the 1970s. For almost four decades, Egypt’s subsequent economic crises, coupled with mismanagement and bad governance, left it in an unfavourable position compared to oil exporting countries of the Gulf. Its role in conflict resolution had increasingly been challenged by other regional actors (Qaddafi’s Libya in the African continent and Saudi Arabia and Qatar in the Middle East). It was only through attempting to revive its soft power that Egypt could have stood a chance to improve its image. The January 25th revolution provided such a chance.
But where does Egypt stand three years after the revolution? To the frustration of revolutionaries who waited so long for change, democratic transformation was aborted by conservative forces at home and in the region. Young activists who inspired the world with their peaceful uprising are now targeted by the police and defamed in the media. Instead of promoting freedom and dignity, Egypt, especially after the 3rd of July 2103, is steadily moving along a ‘Roadmap to Repression’, to borrow the title of a recent report by Amnesty International.
At the same time, with an economy struggling under conditions of political instability, Egypt has become more reliant on loans and grants from Arab Gulf countries. The flow of cash from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, estimated around $17 billion in the last 6 months, has provided a temporary relief to the military-backed government. It has also meant that these countries have successfully contained the Egyptian revolution and sustained Cairo’s dependence on Gulf money.  
As far as Africa is concerned, the post-Morsi transitional government has been struggling to resume Egypt’s participation in the activities of the African Union which suspended Egypt two days after the 3rd of July military coup. According to the Union’s principles, the overthrow of a democratically elected president is an ‘unconstitutional change of government’ that entails the suspension of the country until constitutional order is restored. For the first time in fifty years, Egypt, one of the founders of the Organisation of African Unity and the AU, was not allowed to take part in the annual continental summit that took place in the last week of January. Moreover, the transitional government was not invited to attend the first African- American Summit that takes place in Washington in August this year. Egypt’s confrontation with the AU may get further complicated with the expected running of Field Marshall Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the Minister of Defense, and the key figure in the 3rd of July coup, for presidency. According to the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, ‘the perpetrators of unconstitutional change of government shall not be allowed to participate in elections held to restore the democratic order or hold any position of responsibility in political institutions of their State’. Even if the new government manages to influence African governments to reverse Egypt’s suspension, it would do so in breach of the organisation’s principles. Thus, instead of presenting an exemplar in respecting AU’s principles and developing Africa’s international relations, Egypt is losing opportunities and tools for relating to the continent and representing it in multilateral fora.   
Interestingly, it is not only African governments that are having a problem understanding and accepting what happened on the 3rd of July and its aftermath, but also some African scholars and civil society organisations. South African trade unions that supported the move of the Egyptian masses on the 25th of January 2011 wondered how the same masses now celebrate the erosion of democracy and welcome the domination of militocracy on Egyptian politics. The Nigerian scholar Adekeye Adebajo described the coup as the ‘worst form of mob rule’. A few days after the coup, Horace Campbell rightly anticipated that the military and its allies would be ready to use ‘the excuse of violence and security to hijack the will of the people’.  
With this hijack almost completed, Egypt moves further away from realising democracy and, subsequently, loses an opportunity to be the model in regional politics.

أوبن ديمكراسي: مصر تسير على خارطة الطريق إلى القمع
rawya-tawfeqوطن – نشرت راوية محمد توفيق عامر المحاضرة في كلية الإقتصاد والعلوم السياسية في جامعة القاهرة  جامعة القاهرة تقريرا لها يوم أمس (على الرابط التالي) في مجلة “أوبن ديمكراسي” البريطانية جاء في ملخصه إن ثورة 25 يناير منحت مصر الفرصة لتصبح نموذجا يحتذى به في التحول السلمي في المنطقة وخارجها إلا أن عملية اختطاف الإرادة الشعبية قد اكتملت تقريبًا وباتت مصر تتحرك بعيدًا عن الديمقراطية
وتابعت المحاضرة تقول: أن ثورة يناير لم تعزز من حرية وكرامة المصريين في الداخل فقط، بل ساعدت أيضًا في استعادة هيمنة البلاد على المستوى الإقليمي والدولي، لكن مع الذكرى الثالثة للثورة يبدو أن البلاد قد فقدت طريقها نحو الديمقراطية والانتقال السلمي على المستوى العربي والإفريقي
وأضافت أن “الثورة الماضية يبدو أنها وعدت بالدخول في مرحلة نضالية جديدة من أجل الديمقراطية والحقوق الاجتماعية والاقتصادية في المنطقة وخارجها”، لافتة إلى أن كبار المثقفين والناشطين العرب والأفارقة مثل خير الدين حسيب وعزمي بشارة ومحمود ممداني وهوراس كامبل أكدوا على رمزية ميدان التحرير باعتباره الساحة التي جمعت المصريين من مختلف الخلفيات الدينية والسياسية والاجتماعية للدفاع عن قضية مشتركة
وأردفت أن “مصر قادت ما يسمى بـ “الصحوة الإفريقية” والتي تجلت في عدة دول مثل الكاميرون وموريتانيا وبلدات بجنوب إفريقيا، لافتة إلى أن هذه الأمثلة تشير إلى أن مصر باتت نموذجًا يحتذى به للدول الساعية للتغيير السياسي والاجتماعي، ليس هذا فحسب بل ساهمت الثورة في استعادة البلاد لدورها الإقليمي الذي فقدته منذ عام 1970 أي ما يقرب من أربعة عقود شهدت خلاله أزمات اقتصادية متتابعة مع سوء الحكم والإدارة كل هذا تركها في وضع حرج وذلك بالمقارنة مع الدول المصدرة للبترول في الخليج
ورأت المجلة أن ثورة يناير قدمت الفرصة كي تلعب مصر دورًا فعالاً في حل النزاعات الإقليمية تحسين صورتها وذلك بالاشتراك مع دول مثل ليبيا والسعودية وقطر. وطرحت تساؤلاً قالت فيه: “أين تقف مصر الآن بعد ثلاث سنوات من الثورة ؟”، لتجيب بأن عملية التحول الديمقراطي والثوار الذين انتظروا طويلاً من أجل التغيير تم دحضهم من خلال قوى داخلية، لافتة إلى أن الناشطين الشباب الذين أبهروا العالم بانتفاضتهم السلمية مستهدفون الآن من قبل الشرطة والتشهير في وسائل الإعلام بدلاً من الترويج للحرية والكرامة خاصة بعد ثورة يونيو
وتساءلت, ولكن أين تقف مصر اليوم بعد ثلاث سنوات من الثورة؟؟ إلى الإحباط الذي أصاب الثوار الذين انتظروا طويلا من أجل التغيير، تم إحباط التحول الديمقراطي من خلال القوى المحافظة في الداخل وفي المنطقة. الناشطين الشباب الذي ألهموا العالم مع انتفاضتهم السلمية الآن هم مستهدفون من قبل الشرطة والتشهير بهم في وسائل الإعلام.  بدلا من الترويج للحرية و الكرامة
ومصر لاسيما بعد 3 يوليو 2103، و تسير بخطى ثابتة على طول ‘ “خارطة الطريق إلى القمع”، وذلك وفقا عنوان تقرير صدر مؤخرا عن منظمة العفو الدولية
لافتة إلى أنه في الوقت ذاته, مع الاقتصاد المتعثر وفي ظل ظروف عدم الاستقرار السياسي، أصبحت مصر أكثر اعتمادا على القروض والمنح المقدمة إليها من دول الخليج العربي. و تدفق السيولة النقدية من المملكة العربية السعودية والكويت والإمارات العربية المتحدة، والتي تقدر بنحو 17 مليار دولار في الستة أشهر الماضية، قدمت كإغاثة مؤقتة إلى الحكومة المدعومة من الجيش. وهذا يعني أيضا أن هذه الدول المانحة قد عملت بنجاح على إحتواء الثورة المصرية وجعلت القاهرة تعتمد على اموال الخليج

Saturday, February 8, 2014

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The Walls Of The Cell Were Smeared With Blood

“I noticed that the walls of the cell were smeared with blood….I was beaten so hard that I was thrown from one side of the room to the other. I was slapped on my face, beaten on my head and cursed for criticizing the police and army…One of the girls told me later that the officer took off his shoes and beat her all over her body and on her face with them.” Protester in Cairo. Amnesty International.
egypt - 2014As celebrations got underway for the third anniversary of Egypt’s uprising against the rule of Hosni Mubarak, elsewhere across the country security forces also sought to prevent anti-government gatherings, breaking-up marches and rounding up hundreds of protesters and bystanders.
The scale of arrests was staggering. More than 1,000 people were arrested in a single day according to the Interior Ministry. At least 64 people were killed and hundreds injured in the violence that broke out as security forces tried to clear the protests.
Eyewitnesses and former detainees have described to Amnesty International the beatings and ill-treatment they suffered at the hands of the security forces on 25 January.
Beatings in detention
One protester in Cairo told how demonstrators, including girls and women, were beaten upon arrest after security forces fired live rounds in the air. They were then shoved inside a microbus to be driven to a nearby police station where further beatings followed.
“I noticed that the walls of the cell were smeared with blood….I was beaten so hard that I was thrown from one side of the room to the other. I was slapped on my face, beaten on my head and cursed for criticizing the police and army…One of the girls told me later that the officer took off his shoes and beat her all over her body and on her face with them,” the released protester said.
At the police station the protester said the arrested men were blindfolded and beaten all over their bodies and on their faces. Several detainees, including children, were beaten so badly they were unable to walk. One man was bleeding from the head. Another detainee’s clothes were ripped to shreds.
Despite being found carrying banners and flyers inscribed with slogans against both the Muslim Brotherhood and the army, the protester has been accused of belonging to a banned group – a charge faced by many perceived supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Others told Amnesty International that they had witnessed detainees being given electric shocks.
It was not only adults who found themselves targeted by the security forces that day. For 15-year-old Samar – not her real name- the day of the third anniversary rapidly evolved into a nightmare. She was seized in downtown Cairo by a pro-government group, including women, who beat and dragged her along the ground ripping her clothes, before handing her to the police. The police accused her of being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood or the 6 April Youth Movement, before letting her go.
But her ordeal was not over yet. Shortly afterwards she was stopped again by two soldiers, who detained her because they found a gas mask and a first aid kit when they searched her bag.
She said she was taken to a military building and held alongside male detainees in an outdoor space.
“They made the men strip down to their underwear, blindfolded them, forced them to kneel and then used a sort of electric black taser to shock them on the shoulders and backs,” she said.
Samar was held there for two days before being released.
Lawyers complained to Amnesty International that public prosecutors had also refused to refer detainees to the forensics department for further examinations alleging that their injuries were “minor”.
Access to lawyers
Several lawyers also told Amnesty International that they had been denied access to a number of detention facilities including a Central Security Forces (CSF) Camp on the Cairo-Alexandria desert road.
Others said that they were intimidated by security forces and even threatened at gunpoint.  Those who managed to gain access, including to the Tora CSF Camp, where at least 228 detainees were held, confirmed that they had seen several detainees with visible bruises on their faces and other parts of the body. Lawyers also said that by the time they were allowed in the camp most investigations had already taken place in their absence.
Amr Imam, a lawyer with the Front to Defend Egypt Protesters and the Hisham Mubarak Law Centre, was threatened at gunpoint by a man in a black uniform when he asked to see a group of detainees being held at Maadi Police Station, he told Amnesty International. He was struck in the chest with a rifle-butt. When he protested the man raised his machine gun and pointed it at him. Other members of the security forces followed suit. They threatened to shoot after counting to 10 if he did not leave.
Many detainees were also interrogated inside police stations and riot police [CSF] camps without access to lawyers – a clear violation of Egyptian and international law.
Amnesty International fears that many of the men, women and children arrested were merely exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly or were bystanders.
Among those arrested are individuals sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood, members of the 6 April Youth Movement, as well as independent activists. As in previous cases in the aftermath of Mohamed Morsi’s removal they face a long list of identical charges ranging from murder to hampering traffic. No material evidence is presented by the public prosecution to link individual suspects to specific crimes and little effort is made to establish individual criminal responsibility.
One protester told Amnesty International that he was only freed after he declared his support for the Minister of Defence, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Three years ago many of those who took to the streets during the Egyptian uprising did so to express their anger at police abuse and brutality which had become routine in Mubarak’s Egypt.
Today the space for dissent and legitimate protests is rapidly disappearing.
While a handful of those arrested on 25 January this year have been released on bail, the vast majority remain in detention pending investigations.
As the scope of repression across the country continues to expand unabated, the hopes of freedom and justice are becoming more elusive. Questions also remain about how the upcoming presidential and legislative elections will proceed in a climate where differences of opinion are not tolerated.

egypt policeمع انطلاق الاحتفالات بمناسبة حلول الذكرى السنوية الثالثة لانتفاضة مصر التي أطاحت بحكم حسنى مبارك، سعت قوات الأمن في مناطق أخرى من مصر للحيلولة دون تنظيم تجمعات معارضة للحكومة، وفض المسيرات واعتقال مئات المحتجين والمارة  
لقد كان عدد الاعتقالات مروعا.  فلقد أُلقي القبض على أكثر من 1000 شخص في يوم واحد فقط، وذلك وفق تصريحات وزارة الداخلية.  كما قُتل 64 شخصا على الأقل وجرح مئات آخرون في أعمال العنف التي اندلعت إثر محاولة قوات الأمن فض الاحتجاجات المعارضة للحكومة
ووصف شهود عيان ومعتقلون سابقون لمنظمة العفو الدولية ما تعرضوا له من ضرب وسوء معاملة على أيدي عناصر قوات الأمن يوم 25 يناير/ كانون الثاني الماضي
التعرض للضرب في الحجز
تحدث أحد المحتجين عن تعرض المتظاهرين، بما في ذلك النساء والفتيات، للضرب لحظة اعتقالهم عقب قيام قوات الأمن بإطلاق الرصاص الحي في الهواء.  وحُشروا جميعا داخل حافلة ركوب صغيرة قبل أن يتم اقتيادهم إلى أحد أقسام الشرطة القريبة حيث نالوا نصيبهم من الضرب هناك أيضا
وقال أحد المحتجين ممن أُخلي سبيلهم: لاحظت أن جدران الزنزانة كانت ملطخة بالدماء … ولقد تعرضت للضرب المبرح بحيث أنني قد أُلقي بي من جانب إلى آخر داخل الغرفة. وتعرضت للصفع على وجهي، وضُربت على رأسي، وشُتمت لانتقادي الشرطة والجيش…  وقالت لي إحدى الفتيات فيما بعد أن الضابط خلع حذائه وضربها به على جميع أنحاء جسدها وعلى وجهها أيضا
وقال المتظاهر إنه قد أُعصبت عيون المعتقلين في أقسام الشرطة وتعرضوا للضرب المبرح على جميع أنحاء الجسد والوجه.  وتعرض عدد من المحتجزين، بما في ذلك الأطفال، للضرب المبرح بحيث لم يعودوا قادرين على المشي.  وكان أحدهم ينزف من رأسه، فيما مُزقت ملابس آخر وقُطعت
وعلى الرغم من أنه ضُبط وهو يحمل لافتات ومنشورات عليها شعارات مناوئة للإخوان المسلمين والجيش في آن معا، إلا أن ذلك المحتج اتُهم بالانتساب لعضوية جماعة محظورة – وهي التهمة التي تُسند عادة إلى الذين يُشتبه بأنهم من أنصار جماعة الإخوان المسلمين
وقال آخرون لمنظمة العفو الدولية أنهم قد شهدوا صعق محتجزين بالكهرباء
ولم يقتصر الأمر على البالغين الذين وجدوا أنفسهم مستهدفين من قبل قوات الأمن في ذلك اليوم.  فلقد تحول يوم الذكرى الثالثة للثورة إلى كابوس بالنسبة للفتاة سمر البالغة من العمر 15 عاما (وليس هذا هو اسمها الحقيقي).  فلقد ألقت جماعة موالية للحكومة، بينها نساء، القبض عليها وسط القاهرة، وقاموا بضربها وسحلها على الأرض مما تسبب بكسر أضلاعها وتمزيق ملابسها قبيل تسليمها للشرطة، التي اتهمتها بالانتساب لعضوية جماعة الإخوان المسلمين أو حركة شباب 6 أبريل قبل أن قوموا بإخلاء سبيلها لاحقا
إلا أن محنتها لم تنته عند ذلك الحد.  فبعيد فترة وجيزة استوقفها جنديان واحتجزاها بعد أن عثرا بحوزتها بعد تفتيش حقيبتها على قناع واقٍ من الغاز المسيل للدموع وحقيبة إسعافات أولية  
وقالت أنها اقتيدت إلى مبنى عسكري واحتُجزت رفقة رجال في ساحة خارجية
وقالت سمر: لقد طلبوا من الرجال التجرد من جميع ملابسهم باستثناء الداخلية منها، وأجبروهم على الجثو واستخدموا ما يشبه صاعق (تيزر) كهربائي أسود اللون لصعقهم على أكتافهم وأظهرهم
واحتُجزت سمر هناك طوال يومين قبل أن يتم إخلاء سبيلها
واشتكى محامون لمنظمة العفو الدولية من رفض وكلاء النيابة إحالة المحتجزين إلى الطبيب الشرعي بحجة أن إصاباتهم بسيطة
الاتصال بالمحامين
كما أخبر عدد من المحامين منظمة العفو الدولية أنهم قد مُنعوا من دخول عدد من أماكن الحجز، لا سيما المعسكر التابع لقوات الأمن المركزي على طريق القاهرة – الإسكندرية الصحراوي  
وقال آخرون أن قوات الأمن قد قامت بترهيبهم وتهديدهم بالسلاح.  وأما الذين تمكنوا من دخول بعض مراكز الحجز، بما في ذلك معسكر قوات الأمن المركزي في طره الذي يُحتجز فيه ما لا يقل عن 228 شخصا، فلقد أكدوا أنهم رأوا عددا من المحتجزين وقد بدت آثار كدمات ظاهرة على وجوههم وأنحاء أخرى من أجسادهم.  كما قال المحامون أنه في الوقت الذي سُمح فيه لهم بدخول المعسكر، كانت معظم التحقيقات قد أُنجزت دون حضورهم
وقال عمرو إمام المحامي مع جبهة الدفاع عن متظاهري مصر ومركز هشام مبارك للقانون أن رجلا يرتدي زيا أسود اللون قد هدده بالسلاح عندما طالب بزيارة مجموعة من المحتجزين في قسم شرطة المعادي.  ولقد ضُرب على صدره بعقب البندقية.  وعندما احتج على منعه من زيارة المحتجزين، رفع الرجل بندقيته الآلية وصوبها نحوه.  وهو ما قام به آخرون من عناصر قوات الأمن.  وهددوا بإطلاق النار عليه بعد أن يفرغوا من العد حتى الرقم 10 في حال لم يغادر   
كما خضع العديد من المحتجزين للاستجواب داخل أقسام الشرطة ومعسكرات قوات الأمن المركزي دون السماح لهم بالاتصال مع المحامين – وهو ما يشكل انتهاكا واضحا للقانونين المصري والدولي
وتخشى منظمة العفو الدولية أن العديد من الرجال والنساء والأطفال المعتقلين كانوا يمارسون حقهم في حرية التعبير عن الرأي والتجمع، أو أنهم كانوا من المارة وحسب
وتشمل قائمة المعتقلين أشخاصاً من المتعاطفين مع حركة الإخوان المسلمين، وأعضاء في حركة شباب 6 إبريل وناشطين مستقلين أيضاً  وكما حصل في قضايا أخرى سابقة في أعقاب عزل محمد مرسي، فيواجه هؤلاء قائمة طويلة من التهم المتشابهة والتي تتراوح من القتل إلى عرقلة حركة السير.  ولم تبرز النيابة أدلة مادية تربط بين المشتبه بهم وجرائم محددة، ولم يُبذل الكثير من الجهد بغية إثبات المسؤولية الجنائية الفردية
وقال أحد المحتجين لمنظمة العفو الدولية أنه قد أُخلي سبيله فقط بعدما أعلن عن تأييده لوزير الدفاع، عبد الفتاح السيسي
وقد نزل الكثيرون قبل ثلاث سنوات إلى الشوارع إبان الانتفاضة المصرية بغية التعبير عن غضبهم حيال انتهاكات الشرطة ووحشيتها التي أصبحت أمراً روتينياً معتاداً في مصر إبان حكم مبارك
وها هو حيز المعارضة والاحتجاجات المشروعة اليوم وقد بدأ بالتلاشي والاختفاء سريعا
وفي الوقت الذي تم فيه إخلاء سبيل مجموعة من الذين اعتُقلوا في 25 يناير/ كانون الثاني بالكفالة، فلا زالت الغالبية العظمى منهم داخل مراكز الحجز بانتظار انتهاء التحقيقات
ومع استمرار نطاق القمع في البلاد بالتوسع بلا هوادة، أضحت الآمال بالحصول على الحرية والعدالة أكثر بعدا من ذي قبل. وثمة أسئلة تُطرح بشأن الانتخابات الرئاسية والتشريعية القادمة، وإذا ما كانت سوف تُجرى في ظل مناخ يسوده عدم التسامح مع الرأي الآخر