This film was not made to be shown in Egypt
▻http://africasacountry.com/2018/01/this-film-was-not-made-to-be-shown-in-egypt
Last November an underground screening of the film The Nile Hotel Incident was shut down by Egyptian police in Cairo. The official explanation? The film had not been approved for screening by the country’s censorship board. Before this raid, the film had been removed from the lineup of the annual Panorama of the European Film Festival for,…
“Nile Hilton Incident” tops box offices everywhere but Egypt
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“I’m not a martyr. I’m not a victim. I don’t feel brave,” Tarik Saleh, the award-winning Egyptian/Swedish director of one of the year’s most controversial films, “The Nile Hilton Incident,” told Al-Monitor in a Skype interview.
“I never went to prison in Egypt; I feel very privileged. Filmmakers and writers who are still working there … they are the ones paying a high price,” he said.
An expertly crafted film noir about a corrupt police officer that unveils an even larger web of corruption that involves the police, the justice system and the highest echelons of Egyptian society, Saleh’s movie made headlines in the international press. Although the film was initially approved, several scenes that painted an unflattering portrait of the Egyptian police caused filming to be blocked by Egypt’s state security, forcing the production to move to Morocco.
Several months after winning the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance film festival, this Swedish production has become one of the biggest art-house hits of the year, drawing an attendance of nearly 400,000 in France alone.
Why Was an Italian Graduate Student Tortured and Murdered in Egypt? - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/magazine/giulio-regeni-italian-graduate-student-tortured-murdered-egypt.html?_r=0
The target of the Egyptian police, that day in November 2015, was the street vendors selling socks, $2 sunglasses and fake jewelry, who clustered under the arcades of the elegant century-old buildings of Heliopolis, a Cairo suburb. Such raids were routine, but these vendors occupied an especially sensitive location. Just 100 yards away is the ornate palace where Egypt’s president, the military strongman Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, welcomes foreign dignitaries. As the men hurriedly gathered their goods from mats and doorways, preparing to flee, they had an unlikely assistant: an Italian graduate student named Giulio Regeni.
He arrived in Cairo a few months earlier to conduct research for his doctorate at Cambridge. Raised in a small village near Trieste by a sales manager father and a schoolteacher mother, Regeni, a 28-year-old leftist, was enthralled by the revolutionary spirit of the Arab Spring. In 2011, when demonstrations erupted in Tahrir Square, leading to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, he was finishing a degree in Arabic and politics at Leeds University. He was in Cairo in 2013, working as an intern at a United Nations agency, when a second wave of protests led the military to oust Egypt’s newly elected president, the Islamist Mohamed Morsi, and put Sisi in charge. Like many Egyptians who had grown hostile to Morsi’s overreaching government, Regeni approved of this development. ‘‘It’s part of the revolutionary process,’’ he wrote an English friend, Bernard Goyder, in early August. Then, less than two weeks later, Sisi’s security forces killed 800 Morsi supporters in a single day, the worst state-sponsored massacre in Egypt’s history. It was the beginning of a long spiral of repression. Regeni soon left for England, where he started work for Oxford Analytica, a business-research firm.
From afar, Regeni followed Sisi’s government closely. He wrote reports on North Africa, analyzing political and economic trends, and after a year had saved enough money to start on his doctorate in development studies at Cambridge. He decided to focus on Egypt’s independent unions, whose series of unprecedented strikes, starting in 2006, had primed the public for the revolt against Mubarak; now, with the Arab Spring in tatters, Regeni saw the unions as a fragile hope for Egypt’s battered democracy. After 2011 their numbers exploded, multiplying from four to thousands. There were unions for everything: butchers and theater attendants, well diggers and miners, gas-bill collectors and extras in the trashy TV soap operas that played during the holy month of Ramadan. There was even an Independent Trade Union for Dwarfs. Guided by his supervisor, a noted Egyptian academic at Cambridge who had written critically of Sisi, Regeni chose to study the street vendors — young men from distant villages who scratched out a living on the sidewalks of Cairo. Regeni plunged into their world, hoping to assess their union’s potential to drive political and social change.
But by 2015 that kind of cultural immersion, long favored by budding Arabists, was no longer easy. A pall of suspicion had fallen over Cairo. The press had been muzzled, lawyers and journalists were regularly harassed and informants filled Cairo’s downtown cafes. The police raided the office where Regeni conducted interviews; wild tales of foreign conspiracies regularly aired on government TV channels.
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Regeni was undeterred. Proficient in five languages, he was insatiably curious and exuded a low-intensity charm that attracted a wide circle of friends. From 12 to 14, he served as youth mayor of his hometown, Fiumicello. He prided himself on his ability to navigate different cultures, and he relished Cairo’s unruly street life: the smoky cafes, the endless hustle, the candy-colored party boats that plied the Nile at night. He registered as a visiting scholar at American University in Cairo and found a room in Dokki, a traffic-choked neighborhood between the Pyramids and the Nile, where he shared an apartment with two young professionals: Juliane Schoki, who taught German, and Mohamed El Sayad, a lawyer at one of Cairo’s oldest law firms. Dokki was an unfashionable address, but it was just two subway stops from downtown Cairo with its maze of cheap hotels, dive bars and crumbling apartment blocks encircling Tahrir Square. Regeni soon befriended writers and artists and practiced his Arabic at Abou Tarek, a four-story neon-lit emporium that is Cairo’s most famous spot for koshary, the traditional Egyptian dish of rice, lentils and pasta.
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Egypt : Cancel Military Court Death Sentences. Convicted Civilians Alleged Torture, Forcible Disappearances
(Beirut) – The case of eight men who could face imminent execution following a military trial shows why Egyptian authorities should place a moratorium on the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said today.
Schoolteacher among latest victims of Egypt’s chilling wave of extrajudicial executions
Information gathered by Amnesty International suggests that Egyptian security forces forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially executed a schoolteacher who went missing after his arrest on 9 April, in the latest evidence of a chilling pattern of unlawful killings in the country.
Where is Abdulrahman? The search for my disappeared Egyptian cousin
Our family only learned that Egyptian police had arrested my cousin through word of mouth, three days after it happened. Three weeks later, authorities still refuse to acknowledge his existence
Egypt : Torture Epidemic May Be Crime Against Humanity
Beatings, Electric Shocks, Stress Positions Routinely Used Against Dissidents
Lien vers le #rapport :
▻https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/09/05/we-do-unreasonable-things-here/torture-and-national-security-al-sisis-egypt
Rapporto sull’Egitto: centinaia di persone scomparse e torturate in un’ondata di repressione brutale
In Egitto, l’Agenzia per la sicurezza nazionale (Nsa) si rende responsabile di rapimenti, torture e sparizioni forzate nel tentativo di incutere paura agli oppositori e spazzare via il dissenso pacifico: è quanto ha denunciato oggi Amnesty International in un drammatico nuovo rapporto, che mette in luce una scia senza precedenti di sparizioni forzate dai primi mesi del 2015.
Il rapporto, intitolato “Egitto: ‘Tu ufficialmente non esisti’. Sparizioni forzate e torture in nome del contrasto al terrorismo“, rivela una vera e propria tendenza che vede centinaia di studenti, attivisti politici e manifestanti, compresi 14enni, sparire nelle mani dello stato senza lasciare traccia.
▻https://www.amnesty.it/rapporto-sullegitto-centinaia-di-persone-scomparse-e-torturate-in-unondata-d
#disparitions #rapport
Lien vers le rapport:
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فضيحة التضليل في حلب.. الداخلية المصرية تلقي القبض على خليه تصور افلام مفبركة في بور سعيد على أنها مجازر في حلب | رأي اليوم
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فضيحة التضليل في حلب.. الداخلية المصرية تلقي القبض على خليه تصور افلام مفبركة في بور سعيد على أنها مجازر في حلب
A rajouter au « dossier » de Libération : la police égyptienne arrête 5 personnes avec deux enfants filmant à Port-Saïd des scènes sanglantes supposées se dérouler à Alep, pour les diffuser sur les réseaux sociaux.
Je me demande si on est face à quelque chose de nouveau, depuis quelques années, quelque chose de facile puisqu’il st devenu facile et pas cher de tourner, filmer, monter et diffuser planétairement, ou bien st-ce que ce quelque chose de nouveau est simplement à inscrire dans la continuité des bobards, mensonges, films et photos de propagandes qui ont accompagnés toutes les guerres depuis un siècle, sauf que là c’est plus nécessairement l’État, ou les autorités qui s’en occupe, mais tout le monde puisque désormais tout le monde a accès à ces outils.
Je rejoins tes interrogations. Le temps de la « propagande participative » a sans doute commencé !
Who murdered Giulio Regeni? | Alexander Stille | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/04/egypt-murder-giulio-regeni
When six senior Italian detectives arrived in Cairo in early February, following the discovery of the brutally battered body of 28-year-old Italian PhD student Giulio Regeni, they faced long odds of solving the mystery of his disappearance and death. Egyptian officials had told reporters that Regeni had probably been hit by a car, but clear signs of torture on his body had raised an alarm in Rome.
The Egyptian authorities guaranteed “full cooperation”, but this was quickly revealed to be a hollow promise. The Italians were allowed to question witnesses – but only for a few minutes, after the Egyptian police had finished their own much longer interrogations, and with the Egyptian police still in the room. The Italians requested the video footage from the metro station where Regeni last used his mobile phone, but the Egyptians allowed several days to elapse, by which time the footage from the day of his disappearance had been taped over. They also refused to share the mobile phone records from the area around Regeni’s home, where he disappeared on 25 January, and the site where his body was found nine days later.
Enquête. Qui a tué Giulio Regeni ?
Le 3 février 2016, le corps supplicié du jeune chercheur Giulio Regeni était retrouvé en banlieue du Caire. Pour expliquer sa mort, qui a suscité une vive émotion en Italie, les autorités égyptiennes ont avancé toutes sortes de théories farfelues – qui sont pourtant faciles à démentir à l’âge du numérique.
#Égypte létale
C’est encore pire qu’on le pensait. Cinq mois après la découverte du corps sans vie de l’étudiant italien #Giulio_Regeni, aux abords de l’autoroute Le Caire-Alexandrie, un rapport glaçant d’Amnesty International (AI) fait état de centaines de personnes torturées ou « disparues », victimes d’une vague de répression sans précédent depuis mars 2015. Étudiants, militants politiques ou protestataires, ados d’à peine 14 ans pour certains, ils ont subi la main de fer du président, Abdel Fattah al-Sissi.
Who murdered Giulio Regeni?
When the battered body of a Cambridge PhD student was found outside Cairo, Egyptian police claimed he had been hit by a car. Then they said he was the victim of a robbery. Then they blamed a conspiracy against Egypt. But in a digital age, it’s harder than ever to get away with murder
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/04/egypt-murder-giulio-regeni?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
germany-bundestag-new-measures-to-assist-Egyptian-police.pdf
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Minor Interpellation
submitted by Member Andrej Hunko et al.and the parliamentary group of The Left Party
New measures on the part of the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Federal Police to assist Egyptian police authorities
Bundestag printed paper
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Egyptian #police: In Service of the Regime
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/23422
Four years ago, the Egyptian police were at the height of their power, manifested in teargas bombs, weapons, and an iron grip. Then they were overpowered by the people in less than 72 hours. Despite promises to restructure the police apparatus, the violent security policies against demonstrations have not changed.
#Articles #Egypt #January_25_revolution #Mohammed_Ibrahim #repression #security_forces #Shaima_Sabbagh #Mideast_&_North_Africa
#Egypt police arrest man accused of raping Russian tourist
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/egypt-police-arrest-man-accused-raping-russian-tourist
Egyptian police said Saturday they have arrested a driver for raping a Russian tourist in a resort town, as the government cracks down on an epidemic of #sexual_harassment and violence. Police said the mini-bus driver raped the woman after pretending the vehicle had broken down, to trick her husband into getting off before speeding off with his intended victim. The incident took place in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm al-Sheikh, where the tourism ministry had previously shut down two hotels over alleged rapes. read more
#rape
#Egypt arrests four over explosion near presidential palace
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/egypt-arrests-four-over-explosion-near-presidential-palace
Egyptian police arrested Wednesday four members of an Islamist militant group over bomb blasts near a presidential palace, although another group claimed it had planted the explosives. Two bomb disposal experts, a police colonel and lieutenant colonel, were killed Monday as they attempted to defuse bombs outside the Ittihadeya palace in eastern Cairo. Security forces “arrested four suspected of being involved in the latest blasts that happened near the presidential palace,” a security official said. read more
#Egypt police arrest men suspected of sexual assault at #Sisi rally
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/egypt-police-arrest-men-suspected-sexual-assault-sisi-rally
Egyptian police have arrested seven men accused of sexually assaulting women at celebrations marking President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s inauguration, officials said Monday, as a graphic video of one such attack triggered outrage. The footage shows a crowd of men surrounding the young woman, who was stripped of her clothes and badly bruised, as police escorted her to an ambulance following Sunday’s attack at #Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square. Shared widely on social media websites, it appears to have been filmed using a mobile telephone. read more
#Egypt to announce #Brotherhood leader’s verdict
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/egypt-announce-brotherhood-leaders-verdict
Egyptian police detain an alleged member of the #Muslim_Brotherhood and student of al-Azhar University in Cairo following clashes with security forces on May 21, 2014. (Photo: AFP) Egyptian police detain an alleged member of the Muslim Brotherhood and student of al-Azhar University in Cairo following clashes with security forces on May 21, 2014. (Photo: AFP)
An Egyptian court is expected to announce a verdict Saturday in the trial of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed #Badie and 47 others for inciting violence that killed two people last summer. After the army ousted Islamist Mohammed #mursi last July, Badie was one of thousands of the deposed president’s supporters arrested in a crackdown that also left more than 1,400 (...)
Egyptian police ’using rape as a weapon’ against dissident groups I The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/12/egypt-police-rape-dissidents-crackdown-16000-arrested
Blasts near #Cairo university kill police general
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/two-large-blasts-heard-cairo
Updated 1:37 pm: An Egyptian police general was killed and an assistant interior minister wounded in twin bombings targeting security posts near Cairo University on Wednesday, police said. The attack was the latest by militants targeting security forces following Islamist president Mohammed Mursi’s overthrow in July. The rudimentary bombs also wounded five policemen, the interior ministry said, identifying the slain officer as Brigadier General Tarek al-Mergawi. A police general at the scene told AFP that the bombs were concealed in a tree between two small police posts. read more
Egyptian #police kill pro-Mursi student protester
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/one-killed-cairo-clashes-police
Updated 7:10 pm: One person was killed and 14 wounded Wednesday when police and student supporters of #Egypt's deposed president Mohammed Mursi clashed at #Cairo University, the health ministry said. Riot police fired volleys of tear gas from the university’s main gate at students who were demonstrating against Monday’s sentencing of 529 Mursi supporters to death in the biggest such act in the country’s modern judicial history, an AFP correspondent reported. read more
Egyptian police shoot dead 13-year-old at pro-Mursi protest
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/egyptian-police-shoot-dead-13-year-old-pro-mursi-protest
A 13-year-old boy was shot dead on Wednesday in clashes in the south of the country between the Egyptian police and protesters supporting deposed Islamist President Mohammed #mursi, a ministry official said. “Amr Aly Mohammed was killed by a gun shot during clashes between police and protesters,” said Ahmed Anwar, deputy head of the Ministry of Health for the city of Beni Suef. #Egypt had been witnessing a wave of protests and violence since Mursi was ousted by the army last year. (Reuters)
Egyptian police arrests seven pro-Mursi Facebook users
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/egyptian-police-arrests-seven-pro-mursi-facebook-users
Egyptian police detained seven men accused of using Facebook for inciting people against the security forces, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday, clamping down on internet activism by supporters of deposed President Mohammed Mursi. It said the men, aged between 21 and 43, were behind an array of Facebook sites, some of which had published the addresses of policemen. It follows the February 16 announcement of the arrest of 14 other Muslim Brotherhood activists on similar charges. read more
Egyptian police fire tear gas at pro-Mursi students
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/egyptian-police-fire-tear-gas-pro-mursi-students
Police fired tear gas at university students in Cairo on Sunday as they demonstrated in support of ousted president Mohammed #mursi, two days ahead of a referendum on a new constitution. Clashes between police and the protesters erupted in front of Cairo University, #al-Azhar University and Ain Shams University, security officials said, adding that 19 students, including four women, were arrested. Sunday’s clashes came as #Egypt's military-installed authorities prepare for a referendum on a new constitution, which is due to take place on Tuesday and Wednesday. read more
Students torch #Cairo university, one killed
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/students-torch-cairo-university-one-killed
A man stands outside a faculty building at Cairo’s #al-azhar_university after student supporters of the #Muslim_Brotherhood stormed it on December 28, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Kamel)
Egyptian police shot a student dead Saturday at Cairo’s Al-Azhar university after Islamist students set fire to their university, health ministry officials said. The 19-year-old student was killed as police entered the campus to confront protesters who torched the commerce faculty building, the officials said. The students entered the building during an exam and set it alight before police and security forces members burst in and fired tear gas and apparently live ammunition. read (...)
Jihadist group claims attack on Egyptian police station
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/jihadist-group-claims-attack-egyptian-police-station
An al-Qaeda-inspired group based in #Egypt's #Sinai Wednesday claimed a suicide car bombing of a police headquarters north of Cairo that killed 15 people, the deadliest such attack since Mohammed Mursi’s overthrow. The brazen assault underscored the military’s challenge to contain Sinai militants who have killed more than 100 soldiers and policemen in a wave of attacks since the army ousted Islamist president Mursi on July 3. read more
Egypt police arrest former Morsi PM : ministry - AFP
▻http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-police-arrest-former-morsi-pm-ministry-194047946.html;_ylt=Atj2OQT
Egyptian police arrested on Tuesday Hisham Qandil, who was prime minister under deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, the interior ministry said.
A court had sentenced Qandil to a year in prison for not carrying out a ruling to nationalise a private company.
Massive explosion kills 14 at #Egypt police station
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/massive-explosion-kills-14-egypt-police-station
A powerful #car_bomb tore through an Egyptian police headquarters Tuesday, killing at least 14 people, in an attack the military-installed authorities said is aimed at derailing a democratic transition. Hours after the bombing in Mansoura, a city north of Cairo, prime minister Hazem Beblawi labelled the Muslim Brotherhood, the banned movement of ousted president Mohammed Mursi, a “terrorist” group, though the premier did not blame the organization for the blast. The movement itself strongly condemned the attack, one of the deadliest in Egypt since the military deposed Mursi in July. read more
#Egypt police raids office of leftist NGO
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/egypt-police-raids-leftist-ngo-office
Egyptian police raided the offices of an NGO affiliated with a leftist former presidential candidate, arresting three employees and confiscating computers, the group’s director said Thursday. The Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights, founded by former candidate Khaled Ali, has supported striking factory workers and defended activists at trials. Authorities have renewed scrutiny of some NGOs since the military toppled Islamist president Mohammed Mursi in July following several days of mass protests. read more
#Egypt police uses tear gas to disperses pro- and anti-Mursi protesters
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/egypt-police-uses-tear-gas-disperses-pro-and-anti-mursi-protester
An injured supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted president Mohammed Mursi is helped by fellow supporters during clashes with local residents following a demonstration on December 6, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Kamel)
Egyptian police used tear gas on Friday to end clashes in Cairo between supporters and opponents of ousted president Mohammed Mursi, the state news agency MENA said. Mursi’s supporters have been staging protests almost daily in many towns and cities across Egypt since the army deposed him on July 3 in response to mass protests against him. The Cairo clashes took place in the well-to-do district of Mohandeseen, when a march by Muslim Brotherhood supporters came face-to-face with an opposing crowd. read (...)