organization:youth movement

Egypte : Un membre du 6 avril « a disparu » annonce le mouvement, qui accuse les forces de police | Mada Masr
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The April 6 Youth Movement stated on Sunday that one of their members, Mohamed Attia, disappeared during a visit to family members in the northeastern Cairo neighborhood of Nasr City.

According to a statement by the group, Attia was last seen on Thursday, and could not be found in any hospital or police station.

Group member Sayed al-Banna stated that if Attia was arrested then it would qualify as a kidnap, since he hadn’t been transferred to prosecution. According to the privately owned Al-Masry Al-Youm, the April 6 Youth Movement’s legal committee has filed a complaint to the General Prosecutor blaming the state’s security apparatus in case Attia’s is endangered.

April 6 Youth Movement General Coordinator Amr Aly told Mada Masr that Attia was arrested in a café in Nasr City, detained at a police station and will be sent to State Security prosecution the next day. “But when lawyers headed to the police station, officers denied having arrested him in the first place,” Aly explained.

“Our biggest fear is that when Attia surfaces again his name will be on the papers of some case that he has nothing to do with,” explains the group’s spokesperson. He added that Attia is bearded and, in the light of the current political situation, he could potentially be the victim of a “fake” case.

In a similar situation, the movement blamed the murder of member Khaled al-Rashidy on police forces during the alleged security raid that took place on Wednesday.

In a Facebook statement on Thursday morning, the April 6 Youth Movement said that its member Khaled al-Rashidy was shot in the head and killed during a security raid in Nahya, Giza the night before. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health denied receiving reports of any deaths, while the Ministry of Interior described the incident as “street clashes” that resulted in the death of two Muslim Brotherhood members.

Egypte : Ahmed Maher (6 avril) marque une pause dans sa grève de la faim - Ahram Online
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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.

Coalition of youth groups claims ‘Sisi idol’ fell apart in election
| Mada Masr, 28 mai

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On Wednesday, a coalition of seven youth-based opposition groups issued a joint statement during a press conference, denouncing Tuesday night’s last-minute extension of Egypt’s presidential elections amid lower-than-expected turnout rates, and describing Wednesday’s extension as “unjustified.”

This coalition includes: The Democratic Front, the Ahmed Maher Front, the liberal April 6 Youth Movement, the Leninist Revolutionary Socialists, the Youth for Justice and Freedom, the Egyptian Current Party, the Student Resistance Movement, and the moderate Islamist Strong Egypt Youth Movement — amounting to a few thousand members.

Their statement, titled, “The idol has been broken before becoming a god,” criticized the Presidential Election Commission and interim authorities in their numerous attempts to boost voter turnout in favor of former Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

“They are attempting to create a new pharaoh and to promote him amongst the masses,” while also trying to create an “Egyptian Army Party” as the country’s new ruling party.

The authorities are using all means available to boost voter turnout so as to surpass the participation figures witnessed during the 2012 presidential elections. They are hoping to give Sisi legitimacy over the president he ousted through the ballot box, the statement said.

Morsi won just over 13 million votes in the second round of the 2012 presidential elections. As of Tuesday it looked as though Sisi may have garnered fewer votes.

The groups accuse the authorities of using both incentives and threats to mobilize the populace into voting, including: Officially granting a public holiday (on Tuesday) in order to facilitate voting, providing free transportation and extending elections by a whole day (on Wednesday), while simultaneously threatening to impose fines of LE 500 on every eligible voter who does not take part, as well as denouncing the boycott movement via the mainstream media.

#Egypt bans secular #April_6 protest movement
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/egypt-bans-secular-april-6-protest-movement

An Egyptian court on Monday banned the left-wing April 6 Youth Movement that spearheaded the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak and has protested against the current military-installed regime, a judicial official said. The court was ruling on a private lawsuit brought by a lawyer accusing the April 6 movement of “damaging the image of the state” and illegal contact with foreigners, judicial sources said. read more

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Jailed Leaders of Egypt’s 2011 Revolt Describe Beatings - NYTimes.com
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In a letter smuggled out of Tora Prison over the weekend, Mr. Maher wrote of recently encountering another group of activists who took part in the 2011 uprising and were jailed for protesting on the revolution’s third anniversary in January. Those detainees, Mr. Maher wrote, “exhibited signs of exhaustion and torture.”

According to an English translation of the letter provided to The Lede by Michelle McElroy, an activist in Los Angeles who acts as a United States spokeswoman for the April 6 Youth Movement, Mr. Maher discussed the issue of torture in Egypt’s prisons at length, and concluded with a warning that such violence by the state would lead to only more violence against the state:

Leading Egyptian secular group opposes #Sisi presidency
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/leading-egyptian-secular-group-opposes-sisi-presidency

Egypt’s April 6 Youth Movement, which helped topple Hosni Mubarak in 2011, spoke out on Wednesday against any attempt by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to seek the presidency, saying this would be divisive and destabilizing. Field Marshal Sisi, who is also defense minister, told a military gathering on Tuesday he would soon begin official procedures for registering his candidacy because he could not “turn his back on calls by the majority of Egyptians.” read more

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Egypte - Les militants du 6 avril dénoncent de nouvelles arrestations d’activistes et menacent le pouvoir d’une « troisième révolution » - Ahram Online

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April 6 Youth Movement (Democratic Front) has condemned the arrest of six of its members for distributing flyers calling for gatherings on the revolution’s anniversary.
They were arrested at Cairo’s Shohada Metro station and detained for 9 hours before being released without charge.

Constitution/Egypte Strong Egypt Party members arrested after posting ‘no’ campaign material | Mada Masr

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Three members of the Strong Egypt Party were arrested on Tuesday while distributing posters promoting a “no” vote in the upcoming constitutional referendum, the party announced on its official Facebook page. (...) In addition to the Strong Egypt Party, the April 6 Youth Movement, Revolutionary Socialists, and the Path of the Revolution Front have all announced their support for a “no” vote during the upcoming referendum.

The Ministry of Interior has listed “material against the constitution” as among confiscated materials during the recent arrests of several Muslim Brotherhood members.

Sur Orient XXI ►http://orientxxi.info/magazine/la-constitution-egyptienne-est,0444
►http://orientxxi.info/magazine/batailles-autour-de-la,0423

#Egypte #élections #Constitution

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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