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Alaa Abd el-Fattah has ended hunger strike, sister says
Ruth Michaelson
Tue 15 Nov 2022 | Egypt | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/15/alaa-abd-el-fattah-has-broken-hunger-strike-sister-says
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Alaa Abd el-Fattah, the British-Egyptian democracy activist jailed in Egypt, has told his family in a letter that he has ended his six-month-long hunger strike, which he began in protest against his detention conditions.

“I’ve broken my strike. I’ll explain everything on Thursday,” he told them, in reference to his monthly family prison visits to the Wadi el-Natrun desert prison where he is being held. The democracy activist was sentenced to a further five years in prison last year for sharing a social media post about torture, shortly after gaining British citizenship through his mother.

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Répression, menaces climatiques. Les impasses de la COP27
Orient XXI - Laurent Bonnefoy – 7 novembre 2022
►https://orientxxi.info/dossiers-et-series/repression-menaces-climatiques-les-impasses-de-la-cop27,5985

La tenue de la Conférence des parties dite « COP27 » sur les changements climatiques dans la station balnéaire égyptienne de Charm El-Cheikh permet au président Abdel Fatah Al-Sissi de poursuivre la mise en scène de son fantasme de toute-puissance. Ses outrances répressives et le contrôle policier exercé sur les journalistes et ONG qui feront le déplacement (à travers notamment une application d’accréditation pour smartphone qui impose le traçage) n’empêcheront sans doute pas les gouvernants du monde entier de prétendre, dans un énième forum multilatéral et à coup de promesses, qu’ils répondent à l’urgence écologique. Ils fermeront encore les yeux sur la répression des militantes et militants des droits humains, dont Alaa Abd El-Fatah qui entame en prison une grève de la faim totale le 6 novembre à l’occasion de l’inauguration de la COP. (...)

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Alaa Abdel Fattah

Ahdaf Soueif sur Twitter :
7:45 PM · 31 oct. 2022
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Alaa’s letter written to his mother today:

"You know the story, but it’s important that I tell it again. This journey, I’ve walked it while mostly looking behind me, because I could see nothing in front of me except extinction .. the abyss. #FreeAlaa

Gradually, with each step, each delay, something reached me .. from a visit, from a letter, from a book, an image, from the book, from news of the campaign and news of Khaled. Things changed and I started looking towards the future, a future for us as a family.

If one wished for death then a hunger strike would not be a struggle. If one were only holding onto life out of instinct then what’s the point of a strike? If you’re postponing death only out of shame at your mother’s tears then you’re decreasing the chances of victory ..

Today is the last day that I will take a hot drink, or rather, since I’ll count the days from when the lights come on at 10am - tomorrow, Tuesday, just before the lights come on, I will drink my last cup of tea in prison.

And after 5 days, when the lights come on on Sunday November 6, I shall drink my last glass of water. What will follows is unknown.
This week passed lightly and the next will pass lightly too. I’ve carried on with my routine as normal because

I’ve taken a decision to escalate at a time I see as fitting for my struggle for my freedom and the freedom of prisoners of a conflict they’ve no part in, or they’re trying to exit from; for the victims of of a regime that’s unable to handle its crises except with oppression,
unable to reproduce itself except through incarceration.
The decision was taken while I am flooded with your love and longing for your company.
Much love and till we meet soon ..
Alaa

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