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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 @MaLek: بالمناسبة،داعش رجعت العبودية، اخبار الوسطيين،المعتدلين ايه؟ اه نسيت،مافيش دين ابراهيمي حرمها أصلا:-)، |
@m_sawaf2014 @mahamadgomah طيب يبقى مفيش خراب بيوت لو مطبقتش الشرع، فيه خراب بيوت لو مطبقتش العدل |
@Wa7wa786 @drashraf89 @mahamadgomah لا فيها فهم و خلاف، راجع الجدل حوالين الرجم شرعي ولا لأ و فيه حد ردة ولا لأ |
.@m_sawaf2014 @mahamadgomah فعلا البلاد العلمانية خربانة خالص يا عيني و الناس مهدر حقوقها |
@m_sawaf2014 فين التناقض؟ رافض اصلا ان تفسير القرآن يبقى له دخل في السلطة تتصرف ازاي، بالتالي مش مشغول بازاي افسر الآيات دي في سياق الحكم |
.@m_sawaf2014 @mahamadgomah ناهي ك عن ان هناك من لا يؤمن بالله اصلا، و هناك من يؤمن به و يختلف معك في فهم ارادته و مشيئته |
.@m_sawaf2014 @mahamadgomah و انت مش شغلتك تضمن حقوق الله، الله مقدرته بلا حدود و رحمته كمان، مش محتاج تنوب عنه لا انت ولا الدولة |
@gamal_helal لا مقالوش كده ابدا ابدا. مش بيهتفوا الكفار بقوا ثوار و عباد الصليب معرفش مالهم |
@rafatdiab ما هو ده وهم و مش هيحصل و ما ينفعش يحصل و لو حصل هيبقى نتيجته تكرار المصائب. |
.@Hebayasso ده كان في جنوب افريقيا، لقيت اضراب عمال و اعتصام و انا بتمشى للشغل و قعدت معاهم افهم مطالبهم |
.@Alaaego مش وفد، نفر واحد، مبعوث سامي لحقوق الانسان. قابل الحكومة كلها. و انا مش اهبل عشان اطلب منه حاجة هو لا يملك اصلا انه ينفذها. |
RT @sharifkouddous: Today marks 300 days in prison for journalists @MFFahmy11 @PeterGreste & @Bahrooz. A disgrace. #FreeAJStaff http://t.co… |
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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
