person:ahmed maher

April 6 cofounder Amr Ali sentenced to 3 years prison | Mada Masr
▻http://www.madamasr.com/news/april-6-cofounder-amr-ali-sentenced-3-years-prison

He has served as acting general coordinator for April 6 since the arrest of his predecessor, Ahmed Maher, in 2013. Ali was one of the movement’s cofounders and has held several different leadership positions in the group.

In January 2015, Ali was among several liberal and leftist activists whose assets were frozen after the judicial committee tasked with identifying the assets of the Muslim Brotherhood added their names to its list of suspects.

The movement was established in 2008 to help workers in Al-Mahalla al-Kubra stage a successful strike on April 6 of that year. It subsequently grew into one of Egypt’s foremost youth movements, and until recently was celebrated as an orchestrator of the January 25 revolution. However, a court banned the group’s activities in 2014 after ruling that it was involved in espionage and acts that tarnish the national image.

April 6 cofounders Ahmed Maher and Mohamed Adel were sentenced to three years in prison in 2013 along with activist Ahmed Douma with charges of protesting without a permit and assaulting police.

Four other members of the movement were released from custody earlier this month pending investigations into charges of illegally protesting.

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Egypte : Ahmed Maher (6 avril) marque une pause dans sa grève de la faim - Ahram Online
▻http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/115716.aspx

Ahmed Maher, the jailed former head of the April 6 Youth Movement, has broken his hunger strike, the group said in a statement on Monday.
Maher, who stopped eating on 15 September, will pause his strike until his next appeal session on 27 January.

He is serving a three-year jail term – along with two other prominent activists, Ahmed Douma and Mohamed Adel – on charges of holding unauthorised demonstrations and using force against the police.

Many activists, in and out of jail, are on hunger strike to protest lengthy preventative detention and demand amending the protest law which they deem too restrictive and which has seen hundreds arrested under its provisions.

Among those on strike is Alaa Abdel-Fattah, Sanaa Seif and others in different lawsuits. April 6 co-founder Ahmed Douma has also been on strike with a deteriorating health condition.

A Cairo court banned all activities of the April 6 Youth Movement, ruling on a lawsuit that accused the group of espionage and defaming the Egyptian state.

The movement, which played an important role in the January 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, was subject to a campaign of defamation that accused its members of being agents of foreign countries, paid to stir instability in the country.

The move was criticised by rights advocates, who say the ruling was part of a crackdown on dissent.

April 6 Movement another victim of Egypt crackdown - Al-Monitor : the Pulse of the Middle East
▻http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/04/april-6-movement-egypt-revolution-sisi-crackdown.html

“We have been living in a comic strip,” claimed April 6 Movement founder Ahmed Maher in a recent letter smuggled from his prison cell.

Le 6 avril 2008, via les réseaux sociaux en particulier, une grève générale était lancée avec succès en Egypte (voir ce billet de l’époque : ▻http://cpa.hypotheses.org/249). Aujourd’hui, les dirigeants du mouvement sont en prison.

#Egypt upholds jail terms for three secular activists
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/egypt-upholds-jail-terms-three-secular-activists

An Egyptian court upheld three-year prison sentences on Monday for three prominent activists charged with violating a controversial law restricting protests. The three, including the founder of the April 6 movement Ahmed Maher, rose to prominence in the 2011 uprising that overthrew dictator Hosni Mubarak. The interim government in place after the army overthrew Islamist president Mohammed Mursi in July jailed them for violating a law it had passed banning all but police-sanctioned protests. (AFP)

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Egypte : Le mouvement du 6 avril fête aujourd’hui ses 6 ans.
L’un des ses fondateurs, Ahmed Maher, est en prison. L’activiste est accusé d’avoir organisé une manifestation.

Noam Chomsky parle de Ahmed Maher - YouTube
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZVp3unJQoI

Appeal of Egyptian activists against jail sentence adjourned to 10 February - Ahram Online
▻http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/92072.aspx

A Cairo court has delayed an appeal against the jail sentences of well-known political activists Ahmed Douma, Ahmed Maher and Mohamed to 10 February.

The appellate court also refused on Monday to suspend the jail sentences handed out to Douma, Maher and Adel for allegedly staging unauthorised protests and attacking security forces last November.

The three men are leading figures of the protests that ignited the popular revolt against deposed president Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Maher founded the April 6 Youth movement and Adel is an active member of the group. Douma is a long-time activist. Together they were sentenced last month to three years in jail and fined LE50,000.

Egypte - Ahmed Maher du mouvement du 6 avril : « Nous avons fait une grave erreur le 30 juin. Le régime brutal est de retour » - Middle East Monitor

▻https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/africa/9116-ahmed-maher-of-6-april-movement-we-made-a-mistake-on-306-the

We took part in the 30 June (demonstration), and that turned out to be a big mistake, and we took part in what was called the correction revolution of 30 June . We went to Al-Ittihadiyyah (presidential palace) and we went down to Tahrir Square. We heard that it was (meant to be) a correction and a remedy for Morsi’s mistakes.

We do not deny that Morsi did wrong. And we do not deny that he dealt with the situation with stupidity, nor do we deny that the Brotherhood group were too opportunistic. But what is happening now is seriously a return to the old regime and a return to the same old tactics used by Mubarak in the past; the same persecution, the same torture, the same corruption and the same lies are being spread in the media that existed during the time of Mubarak and the time of the Military Council, and, to some extent, during the time of Morsi. What is happening now is much worse.

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Egypte/manifestations : Trois activistes condamnés à 3 ans de prison et à des amendes - Ahram Online

▻http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/89748.aspx

April 6 Youth movement founder Ahmed Maher, member Mohamed Adel and prominent activist Ahmed Douma are handed a three-year prison sentence and a LE50,000 fine each

#Egypt jails three #secular_activists for three years
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/egypt-jails-three-secular-activists-three-years

Three leading Egyptian activists were sentenced to three years in prison each on Sunday in a case brought over their role in recent protests, escalating a #crackdown on dissent by the army-backed government. Ahmed Maher, Ahmed Douma and Mohammed Adel are symbols of the protest movement that ignited the historic 2011 uprising against President Hosni Mubarak. Each one was also fined 50,000 Egyptian pounds ($7,200) by the court. As the verdict was read, the courtroom erupted in chants of: “Down, down with military rule! We are in a state, not in a military camp!” read more

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#Egypt re-arrests secular activist one day after his release
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/egypt-re-arrests-secular-activist-one-day-after-his-release

An Egyptian prosecutor ordered Monday the detention of a prominent secular activist for taking part in an unauthorized protest, just a day after he was freed over a similar case, state media reported. Ahmed Maher, founder of the April 6 movement which was one of the main groups that spearheaded the revolt against Hosni Mubarak in 2011, had turned himself in on Saturday after an order for his arrest. read more

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Ahmed Maher - April 6 response to El Sisi Statement :
Against violence and terrorism

April 6 Youth Movement
response to El Sisi Statement :

Against violence and terrorism

The great revolution of January and it’s multiple waves until June wave state to eliminate corruption, injustice and tyranny and to establish the rule of law and establish the rights and freedoms of all Egyptians in various spectrum.

April 6 Youth stresses on a hard stance against violence against criminal and terrorist acts aimed at any Egyptian citizen, whatever his beliefs or political affiliation. Proceeding from the principle and conviction of April 6 movement and as a response to the appeal of the people since the revolution demanding peaceful acts.

We believe that our armed forces do not need authorization to perform their tasks in maintaining national security of the homeland and of the citizens ,and must be addressed for each criminal manifestations in the Egyptian street and the elimination of all aspects of arms control and violence in a away that is governed by law and without any exceptional measures

April 6 movement is against the violation of the rights and freedoms of any Egyptian whatever his or her affiliation. We emphasize that any action serves to increase tension and deepen the wound of our homeland will push us away from national reconciliation and will form major threat to the national security

May God protect Egypt and the Egyptians

April 6 Youth
Patriotism above Politics and Principles above Interests

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April 6 call for protest in Cairo against detention of founding member, Ahmed Maher

▻http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/71142.aspx
Update ▻http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/71150.aspx

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