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Statement of Solidarity #SaveAlaa #FreeThemAll
Egyptian-British political prisoner, organizer, writer, and computer programmer, Alaa Abdel Fattah has spent nine of the ten years since the counter-revolution led by General el-Sisi, in prison. He is in prison for his ideas and his words. R-Shief joins the global demand to release him.
Alaa helped make Arabic possible on the internet. Developing Arabic-language versions of free and open source (FOSS) software and platforms, Alaa and his then spouse, Manal, first became known for developing "Omraneya." This website aggregated Egyptian blogs in the early aughts. Alaa had organized an online group of programmers working on the Arabization Drupal software, while leading training workshops in Egypt on how to install the free and open source operating system Linux.
In the period following his 2012 release, Alaa wrote very few long-form essays, instead tweeting and posting to Facebook, hosting public fora, appearing on television talk shows, and speaking at rallies amidst relentless street protests and industrial actions, parliamentary and presidential elections, constitutional crises, the Muslim Brotherhood’s victory and catastrophic year in power. His book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated, uses Alaa’s social media output to tell the story of 2012–13, but we must bear in mind the sheer volume of his output: he has tweeted a total of 290,000 times since 2007–about 100 books’ worth of tweets.
Alaa uses social media not only as a medium for transmission outwards but of collecting information, combining and disseminating, as a space for debate, a personal diary, a public diary, a podium, and a comedy stage. Alaa writes relentlessly. His brain is simultaneously engaged with a multitude of topics.
Today, November 8, 2022, Alaa is on his 221st day of a hunger strike. Today is his third day without water.
“He is putting his body on the line not because he wants to die but because he wants to live” @Sana2, speaking of her brother, Alaa Abdel Fattah.
#FreeAlaa, #FreeThemAll
SIGN PETITIONS DEMANDING HIS IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Ten Thousand Tweets from @alaa
RT @masteson: I remember Laila Soueif, mother of @alaa, telling me in 2015 that the old generation should step aside and make room for the… |
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اللهم أدركنا البرج العاجي |
RT @netblocks: We hope that internet will never be shut in #Ethiopia and current restrictions will be lifted
- @anriette to H.E. Ato Jama… |
RT @domaley: Packed house at the discussion of the revision of the Ethiopian Computer Crime Proclamation. An advisory council is working to… |
RT @BaheyHassan: لجنة حقوق الانسان بالبرلمان الأوروبي تدين بقوة قمع #السيسي "الوحشي"لمظاهرات الجمعة وحجبه مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي واعتقاله… |
RT @Womenatweb_Rw: .@anriette says that it is not enough for governments to invest in internet infrastructure, there needs to also to be fr… |
RT @pielemeier: @anriette: shutting down the internet to address concerns like hate speech, is like using DDT to address malaria and poisin… |
RT @lawyerpants: Shutdowns are the wrong tool - "like using DDT to kill malaria". The human rights framework gives governments plenty of be… |
RT @lawyerpants: Upholding the rights of both the responsible and irresponsible citizens - that's the challenge of democratic governance. -… |
RT @Womenatweb_Rw: The more we tell governments on the cost of shutdowns, the more they shut down because they realize how effective it is.… |
RT @lawyerpants: Wow! Direct challenge by @anriette of @APC_News to the Ethiopian Minister: pledge never to shut down the internet.
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In a demand to release Egyptian-British political prisoner, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, the British-Egyptian political prisoner and revolutionary activist, VJ Um Amel reads from Alaa Abd el-Fattah's book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated.
On November 6, 2022, the 27th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) opened in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. On the day the conference started, Alaa took the final escalation in his 221-day hunger strike and stopped drinking water. Today Alaa is on his 221st day of a hunger strike. Today is his third day without water. In his powerful act of resistance, Alaa is making this intersection between human rights and climate justice loud and clear.
“He is putting his body on the line not because he wants to die but because he wants to live” -@Sana2, speaking of her brother. #FreeAlaa #FreeThemAll
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Access Now defends and extends the digital rights of users at risk around the world
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#FreeAlaa Digital Action Toolkit, and you can check out their Instagram and Twitter posts
Appeal letter on arbitrarily detained activist amid pandemic: Alaa Abdel Fattah