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Egyptian pro-democracy activist free after 5 years in prison
▻https://www.citynews1130.com/2019/03/28/egyptian-pro-democracy-activist-free-after-5-years-in-prison

The lawyer and family of one of Egypt’s most prominent pro-democracy activists, Alaa Abdel-Fattah, say he has been released from prison after serving a five-year sentence for taking part in protests.

His sisters, Mona and Sanaa Seif, posted on Facebook on Friday that “Alaa is out,” along with a video of him at home, playing with a dog.

His lawyer, Khaled Ali, confirmed the release by posting: “Thanks God, Alaa Abdel-Fattah at home.”

Abdel-Fattah was sentenced to five years for taking part in a peaceful demonstration in 2013 after the military’s ouster of Egypt’s freely elected but controversial Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

His imprisonment was part of a wider crackdown on the pro-democracy movement that began with the 2011 uprising that toppled long-time President Hosni Mubarak.

#égypte #alaa_abdel-fattah

Egypte : mort d’Ahmed Seif el Islam, saint patron de la justice – Nouvelles du Caire

▻http://blog.slateafrique.com/nouvelles-du-caire/2014/08/28/egypte-mort-d%E2%80%99ahmed-seif-el-islam-saint-patron-de-la-just

Mort d’une figure emblématique de la militance égyptienne et de la lutte pour les droits de l’homme, le père d’Alaa Abdel Fattah et Mona Seif, tous deux emprisonnés actuellement, alors qu’Alaa a commencé une grève de la faim la semaine dernière.

Voici la lettre ouverte de son fils, traduite en anglais :

►http://www.madamasr.com/content/open-letter

Triste jour pour les luttes égyptiennes.

Activists Alaa Abdel-Fattah, Mona Seif receive suspended jail sentence - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online

▻http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/90865.aspx

The Giza Criminal Court on Sunday handed leftist activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, his sister Mona Seif and ten more defendants a suspended one-year jail sentence on accusations of torching the campaign headquarters of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq.

#Egypt jails 12 activists for “attacking” political office
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/egypt-jails-12-activists-attacking-political-office

Twelve prominent Egyptian dissidents were given one-year suspended jail terms on Sunday for allegedly attacking the campaign headquarters of defeated presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik during the 2012 election in a verdict widely seen as political. The activists include siblings Alaa Abdel Fattah and Mona Seif, leading figures in the protest movement that triggered the 2011 uprising against autocrat Hosni Mubarak but is now facing a widening crackdown by the army-backed authorities. read more

#Ahmad_Shafik #mursi #secular_activists #Top_News

Mona Seif - #Egypt : My Part in the Revolution
►http://www.asafeworldforwomen.org/war-zones/pc-egypt/564-egypt-my-part-in-the-revolution-mona-seif.html

le rôle des #femmes dans la révolution en Egypte

I didn’t try to stop and point out what we (women) did in the whole movement until I was asked frequently about the role women played. Because, from the beginning, I went to demos with women. I went with my friends, my mother, my sister. So I was always surrounded by women. I always saw women I know and I don’t know really getting involved in everything. Even like organising January 25th from the beginning it was from a female friend of mine that I knew about all of the details and arranging the distribution of food, the collecting money, getting blankets, the women arranging the stage from which we announced and we organised stuff, medical aid on the field while people were getting shot at and getting wounded – everything, everything, women and girls were there...

I’ve never really looked for what women could particularly do because I come from a family where women are extremely empowered.