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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 @ecesr: #مجتمع مدني | منظمات حقوقية تطلق حملة “حق ليا وليك” للتعريف بدور المجتمع المدني http://t.co/zV9tEqasvy http://t.co/4KC5MEc28p
need android phone that can be easily rooted and flashed with a custom distro, available in egypt @moftasa @shadysamir @linuxawy @RamyRaoof
.@mahamadgomah خلينا عايشين في الغم وسايبين غيرنا يفلح لحد ما يفتحها علينا ونطول الدنيا والدين،ولو مطولناش نبقى نطلعلهم لسانا واحنا في الجنة
.@mahamadgomah تمام يعني الحاجة اللي نافعة الناس و مخلياهم فالحين متنفعناش عشان احنا مسلمين؟ فكتب علينا البؤس و الظلم؟
.@miams_2006 @drashraf89 @mahamadgomah لا ده بقى اللي خطأ، انا لما بشرب بيرة لا اعتدى على حقك في أي حاجة، ميفرقش ده في العلن ولا في السر
@ahmada2 لو امين شرطة ملتحي كان معتصم في رابعة غالبا هيثق فيه
@Elthokapy @mahamadgomah لأ طبعا، الدولة لا يحق لها تطبيق قوانين ظالما ولا يحق لها اصدار قوانين مفيش عليها تراضي مجتمعي
خافي منا يا حكومة http://t.co/vKlYRaq5EA
ناس عايشة في بلد التعذيب فيها منهجي و متفشي و احكام اعدام بترف و قضاء فاسد تماما و مقتنعين ان الحل لكل ده هو اننا... http://t.co/2vHqLAjFCX
.@mahamadgomah @m_sawaf2014 اظن الارتباط بين الشرع و الظلم اكبر مما تظن، راجع كل التجارب اللي رفعت شعار تطبيق الشريعة مؤخرا. وشوف عاملة ازاي
@mahamadgomah @Wa7wa786 @drashraf89 بعيدا عن الجدل و أنا مالي؟ حاجة حصلت من 1500 سنة.
@MaLek فيه ديانات حرمتها؟ حتى البوذية اتزنقت في حتة المساواة بين كل الكائنات من غير تحريم للعبودية نفسها

Twitter Data Sets (Jan-Nov 2022) 

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  • #FreeAlaa - CSV (267mb) - JSON (345mb) - 180,451 tweets

  • #COP27 - CSV (2.15gb) - JSON (2.61gb) - 1,187,098 tweets

  • #Egypt - CSV (1.71gb) - JSON(1.43gb) - 666,008 tweets

  • #FreeAlaa - CSV (53kb) - JSON (86kb) - 293 tweets

  • #COP27 - CSV (763kb) - JSON (2mb) - 4,200 tweets

  • #Egypt - CSV (5mb) - JSON (7mb) - 18,422 tweets

  • #FreeAlaa - CSV (119mb) - JSON (165mb) - 200,833 users *

  • #COP27 - CSV (1.22gb) - JSON (1.71gb) - 2,191,604 users *

  • #Egypt - CSV (573mb) - JSON (799mb) - 1,002,428 users *

       * Note: Description field is in unicode_decode

  • #FreeAlaa - Images - 743mb - 6,274 images

  • #COP27 - Images - 7.07gb - 53,375 images

  • #Egypt - Images - 3.16gb - 22,242 images

#FreeAlaa on
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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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UC Santa Barbara
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