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  • Paris a armé la répression égyptienne dès 2013, accuse Amnesty International
    https://www.franceculture.fr/economie/paris-a-arme-la-repression-egyptienne-des-2013-accuse-amnistie-interna

    Le rapport est explosif. Amnesty International l’affirme : des armes françaises, comme des blindés, ont servi à la répression en Egypte. L’organisation a rendu ce mardi un rapport de 60 pages intitulé Égypte. Des armes françaises au cœur de la répression. D’après l’ONG, l’armée égyptienne a utilisé ces armes entre 2012 et 2015, au plus fort de la répression post-révolution. Alors même que le ministre des Affaires étrangères français de l’époque, Laurent Fabius, condamnait une telle réponse du pouvoir.

    [...]

    Pour réaliser son rapport, l’Organisation de défense des droits de l’Homme a analysé des centaines de photos et plus de 20 heures de vidéo [...]
    C’est dans l’une de ces vidéos que les membres d’Amnesty International ont remarqué la présence de véhicules blindés français fabriqués par Renault Trucks Defense, appelé aujourd’hui Arquus.

    [...]

    L’ONG estime qu’entre 2012 et 2014 plus de 200 engins ont été fournis à l’Egypte par la France. La moitié sont passées entre les mains du ministère de l’Intérieur égyptien.

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    Des blindés livrés par la France ont alors été filmés lors des confrontations les plus violentes le 14 août. Les engins de Renault Trucks Defense, des Sherpa LSW et Sherpa LS, dispersent les manifestants qui participaient à un sit-in sur les places Rabaa al-Adawiya et al-Nahda du Caire. Ce jour-là, au moins 817 personnes sont mortes. « C’est la première fois dans l’histoire égyptienne moderne qu’autant de manifestants étaient tués en une seule journée » rappelle l’ONG dans son rapport.

    https://www.amnesty.fr/controle-des-armes/actualites/france-egypte-aux-armes-policiers-egyptiens

    Égypte - des armes françaises au cœur de la répression

    Des véhicules blindés et des munitions fournis par la France sont au cœur de la répression sanglante des manifestations en 2013. Nos équipes ont enquêté.

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    Des centaines de véhicules blindés, des navires de guerre, des machines à produire des munitions et même le fleuron de la production militaire française, l’avion de chasse Rafale. Nul inventaire à la Prévert, mais l’impressionnante liste des armes vendues par la France à l’Égypte depuis 2012. Montant global, selon l’estimation du rapport publié ce mardi 16 octobre : plus de quatre milliards d’euros d’armes françaises livrées à l’armée égyptienne entre 2012 et 2017.

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    Les autorités françaises ont pourtant indiqué à Amnesty International n’avoir autorisé l’exportation de matériel militaire qu’à destination de l’armée égyptienne et uniquement dans le cadre de la « lutte contre le terrorisme » dans le Sinaï, et non pour des opérations de maintien de l’ordre.

    Un haut responsable français a concédé que, si le matériel sécuritaire fourni par la France était initialement destiné à l’armée égyptienne, les autorités égyptiennes avaient détourné certains blindés au profit des forces de sécurité.

    La France a également poursuivi ses livraisons après que les États membres de l’Union européenne (UE) furent convenus, dans les conclusions publiées en août 2013 par le Conseil des affaires étrangères de l’UE et réaffirmées en février 2014, de suspendre les licences d’exportation vers l’Égypte de matériel utilisé à des fins de répression interne.

  • 15-year-old Palestinian killed, 2 injured by Israeli shelling in Rafah
    March 22, 2017 9:50 A.M. (Updated: March 22, 2017 11:21 A.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=776051

    GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — An 15-year-old Palestinian was killed and two other Palestinians were injured by Israeli shelling in eastern Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip before dawn on Wednesday.

    Locals told Ma’an that Israeli drones were also flying overhead as the sound of gunshots and explosions were heard.

    Spokesperson for Gaza’s Ministry of Health Ashraf al-Qidra said in a statement that Youssef Shaaban Abu Athra , 15, was killed while two others sustained multiple injuries from shrapnel as a result of the artillery fire. He was initially reported to be 18-years-old.

    The two injured were taken to the Abu Youssef Najjar Hospital in Rafah for treatment. Their identities and their medical conditions remained unknown.

    An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that Israel forces had “detected three suspects” near Israel’s military border fence in southern Gaza, and that Israeli forces responded by “firing with a tank toward the suspect,” adding that “one hit was confirmed.”

    However the spokesperson did not explicitly acknowledge that someone had been killed or elaborate on what had been suspicious about their behavior.

    According to Israel news site Ynet, the Israeli army was investigating whether the three Palestinians “were trying to plant an explosive device.”

    In a separate incident in southern Gaza on Wednesday morning, witnesses told Ma’an that four Israeli bulldozers raided the town of al-Qarrara in northern part of Khan Yunis, escorted by several Israeli military vehicles deployed inside the Gaza’s borders.

    Witnesses said that Israeli soldiers indiscriminately opened fire at Palestinian farmers tending to their lands there, however no injuries were reported.

    #Palestine_assassinée

    • In Excessive Use of Lethal Force, Israeli forces Kill Child and Wound Young Man in Southern Gaza Strip
      March 22, 2017
      http://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=8940

      In a new crime of excessive use of force, on 22 March 2017, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian and seriously wounded a young man after firing artillery shells at them when both civilians were near the border fence with Israel in al-Shokah village, east of Rafah City. The investigations conducted by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) emphasized that the shelling incident violates the principle of necessity and distinction during which the use of force was excessive, especially the victims were only civilians and unarmed.

      According to PCHR’s investigations and the testimony of an eyewitness, at approximately 00:00, Israeli forces stationed along the border fence off al-Nahdah neighborhood in al-Shokah village, east of Rafah City, fired around 15 artillery shells at 3 Palestinian civilians, who were only 300 meters away from the above-mentioned fence. According to the eyewitness, those civilians intended to sneak into Israel for work. The artillery shells directly hit one of them namely Yousif Sha’ban Ahmed Abu ‘Azrah (16), from al-Shabourah refugee camp in Rafah City, to the upper part of his body. Meanwhile, Mohammed Wahid ‘Atallah al-‘Akar (25), from Yibna refugee camp in Rafah, sustained shrapnel wounds to the chest and abdomen. The child died on the spot while al-‘Akar was transferred to the European Hospital in Khan Younis due to his serious wounds. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said to PCHR’s fieldworker that the Palestinian Liaison told the PRCS they received information from the Israeli Liaison there is a dead body in the aforementioned area. The PRCS immediately headed to the scene to find the child’s dead body 300 meters away from the fence while they found al-‘Akar lying around 500 meters away from the fence. It should be mentioned that since the beginning of 2017, the Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian civilian and wounded 21 others, including 3 children.

  • The puzzling return of Essebsi in post-revolution #Tunisia
    http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/23006

    No Tunisian could have imagined that this old man, #Beji_Caid_Essebsi, who had been forgotten with the ministers of former President Habib #Bourguiba, will become the president of Tunisia at almost 90 years of age after a revolution that was driven by the Tunisian youth.

    #al-Nahda #Arab_Spring #Articles #Moncef_Marzouki #Nidaa_Tounes #presidential_elections #Mideast_&_North_Africa

  • Clashes break out during Tunisian protest over economic hardship
    http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/clashes-break-out-during-tunisian-protest-over-economic-hardship

    Clashes broke out Wednesday in central #Tunisia between police and demonstrators protesting economic hardship, as discontent mounts over new taxes and government failure to improve living conditions, three years after an uprising. Dozens of protesters tried to force their way into the offices of the ruling Islamist party al-Nahda in the town of Kasserine, but police drove them back with teargas, an AFP journalist reported. read more

    #Top_News

  • #Tunisia : New Details in Opposition Assassination Point to Libyan Islamist
    http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/tunisia-new-details-opposition-assassination-point-libyan-islamis

    Protesters shout slogans and hold up portraits of assassinated Tunisian opposition figure #chokri_belaid during a demonstration in Tunis on 2 October 2013 organised to pressure the ruling Islamist party to tell the truth on the attack blamed on radical Islamists. AFP - Fethi Belaid) Protesters shout slogans and hold up portraits of assassinated Tunisian opposition figure Chokri Belaid during a demonstration in Tunis on 2 October 2013 organised to (...)

    #Mideast_&_North_Africa #al-Nahda #Articles #Libya

  • Statement from pro-Morsi detainees in Egypt

    Muslim Brotherhood website Ikhwanweb on 14 September reported that Rabi’ah [al-Adawiyah] and Al-Nahdah [Square] detainees [have released on] Thursday [12 September] [the following] statement:

    We are writing this statement in conditions that, to put it mildly, are far from humane.

    We, Rabi’ah detainees, are in fact held hostage in this prison of the putschist regime, where they call us “the hostages,”

    We are completely surrounded, here. The siege isolating us knows no limits, with total media silence and complicity of the prosecution in the ongoing atrocious farce. We are like orphans at some villains’ table.

    Justice is totally absent, and the judges chose to be judges in the servants of fire, the ambassadors of hell.

    The situation is really bad at this prison. It does not conform to even the most basic of human rights - from medical care to food and drink.

    As for our legal position, the most polite description would be as we said above: an atrocious farce.

    We, Rabi’ah detainees, will not cooperate with this artificial set up, this contrived farce. Will not accept to be seen by the prosecution service, about which the judge says:

    “We have not come here to listen, only to extend the period of pre-trial detention.”

    They showed no mercy to 16-year old adolescents. They showed no compassion for the elderly. They brought against us all ludicrous implausible charges even the devil himself could not have fabricated.

    They brought all manner of false charges against us, after they killed more than 3,000 of our brothers and sisters.

    We will not detail, here, what we humiliation, persecution and torture we have been subjected to at the hands of the police, right before prosecutors. God bear witness to this.

    History will not forgive them.

    Ultimately, prison, police terrorism and the judges’ total complicity will not deter us from completing our journey.

    Source: Ikhwanweb, London, in English 0625gmt 14 Sep 13

  • Deportation pondered for pro-Morsi strikers
    http://www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/198989/reftab/73/t/Deportation-pondered-for-pro-Morsi-strikers/Default.aspx

    KUWAIT CITY, Aug 16: The security authorities in Kuwait are looking into the possibility of deporting Egyptians who took part in the illegal sit-in in front of their consulate in Roudah to protest the action taken by the Egyptian security authorities against the demonstrators in two areas — Rabaa Al-Adawaiya and Al-Nahda, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily.

    A replacer aussi dans le contexte ambiant d’une véritable campagne d’expulsion pour un oui pou un non (particulièrement la mise en oeuvre de la loi sur l’expulsion en cas d’offense au code de la route)

  • Tunisian Media: Al-Nahda Tightens its Control
    http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/7232/tunisian-media_al-nahda-tightens-its-control-

    Despite such words of assurance, the freedom and independence of Tunisian media remain under threat. Attacks on journalists are often treated with impunity while heavy punishments are handed out to those deemed to have “disturbed public order or public morals.” To some extent, the faltering process of media reform can be attributed to the failure to adopt the new Press Code as elaborated in November 2011 by the National Committee of Information and Communication Reform (INRIC). One must, however, ask why, despite commitments to the contrary, the government and justice system have so consistently failed to implement this new law or pay heed to the recommendations of the INRIC.

  • Tunisian Media : A Re-run of Ben Ali Policies
    http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/tunisian-media-re-run-ben-ali-policies

    The honeymoon between the Tunisian government and state media was short lived. In a surprising move that contradicts its declared commitment to the “freedom of the press,” the cabinet headed by al-Nahda’s secretary-general Hamadi Jebali appointed new managers and directors for all the state-owned media organizations on Saturday.

    The Tunisian press syndicate expressed its displeasure with the “one-sided, even condescending way in which these appointments were made.” Meanwhile, some independent media pointed out that most of those appointed are part of the deposed regime and had been pushed aside after the revolution.