| June 30, 2008
Reports on Monday revealed that the
Egyptian regime had ordered South African security agencies to
hold one of less-fearful scholastic preachers in the Muslim
World in pursuit of America's criminalities and flawed
operatives war on terror.
Security forces
in Johannesburg Airport arrested outspoken Sheikh Wagdy Ghoneim
Monday while he was heading for Yemen to attend an Islamic
conference. Reasons for the arrest are still unclear.
The Sheikh has left South Africa
several times before to attend conferences and seminars, but
this was the fist time he receives any harassment by
authorities.
Sheikh Ghoneim is currently a
resident of South Africa. South African Authorities have
recently granted him and his family official visa.
Same day, Bassam Adel, Muslim Brotherhood relief activist, was
jailed by the State Security Investigations after being released
by Cairo Criminal Court last Thursday. He was denied food and
clothes.
Bassam has been arrested last May 9 by North Sinai State
Security Forces with no obvious reason but helping injured
Palestinian and patients at Al-Arish. Forces stormed into his
house and siezed his PC, mobile phone, and some Islamic books.
Supreme State Security Prosecution at the 5th district has
decided to imprison him for 15 days, then renewed his jail after
enlisting him with Dr. Faramawi in the case of supporting Hamas
with financial and military support, from which Faramawi has
been acquitted two weeks ago.
Bassam Adam works in coordination with official authorities
concerned with helping Palestinians in Al Arish.
Rights Groups Call for Official Action Against
Torturing Another Egyptian Journalist
Three
human rights organizations
have demanded Friday to punish three
police officers from the Delta governorate of Beheira on charges
of abusing Kamal Murad Al Fagr newspaper journalist, who exposed
the complicity of a merchant and his two police sons in
harassing of peasants.
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, The Arab
Council for Supporting Fair Trials and
Hisham Mubarak Center for Law
submitted details of the incident (including deliberate beating
and insulting) to the Attorney General.
Some police officers had arrested Kamal Murad last Tuesday June
17
after he created a reportage showing them
beating a number of peasants in Ezbet Muharram
village
and forcing them to sign leases with one
of the landowners in courtesy of their police officers
friends—sons of the owner.
The police officers have beaten and insulted Murad, and
threatened to imprison him.
Murad was surprised
when he learned that he was accused of
attacking police officers and inciting farmers against security
forces.
The journalist of the opposition Al Fagr newspaper Kamal Murad
was the journalist who publicized the famous torture of driver
Emad El Kebir.
Gamal Eid Executive Director of the Arabic Network for Human
Rights Information
said the attack of the police officers on Kamal Murad confirmed
their desire to take revenge against the journalist who exposed
a major case of torture in Egypt.
“The Interior Minister
has to convert his written statement to real action to make
other police officers abstain from practicing torture,” he said.
The three rights groups decided to form a front for the defense
of Kamal Murad
as
a step towards putting an end to the phenomenon of police
impunity and reducing torture and ill-treatment of journalist
that is threateningly on the rise. |
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