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Protesten in Egypte tegen corrupte al-Sisi

Posted on by Telmo Claro
In Egypte is het sinds afgelopen vrijdag behoorlijk onrustig, ondanks dat het geen grote groepen zijn, wordt er in meerdere steden in Egypte gedemonstreerd en dat zou voor het eerst zijn sinds al-Sisi na zijn aantreden een groot aantal mensen liet vermoorden en gevangen zette voor demonstreren tegen de coup die hij met hulp van o.a. de CIA pleegde…….. Een coup tegen de democratisch gekozen president Mohamed Morsi….. Op grond van een fiks aantal leugens greep het leger in en zette de voormalige president af en gevangen.
Nadat Mohamed Ali, een Egyptische acteur en vastgoed ontwikkelaar die in Spanje verblijft, een aantal video’s op YouTube dropte, video’s waarin te zien zou zijn dat al-Sisi en z’n maten zo corrupt zijn als de pest, ging men de straat op o.a. in Caïro. De reden voor het naar buiten komen met video’s die Ali de afgelopen jaren van dichtbij heeft kunnen maken, is het feit dat hij niet betaald werd en wordt…… (m.i. wel een ‘beetje’ hypocriet)

De video’s zijn voor velen blijkbaar de spreekwoordelijke druppel en afgelopen vrijdagavond verzamelden zo’n 200 mensen zich op het Tahrirplein in Caïro, ook in andere grote steden werd gedemonstreerd.

Al weken voorafgaand aan de laatste protesten, gaat de #Tahrirplein rond, dit daar de mensen de bezuinigingen meer dan zat zijn, terwijl al-Sisi, zijn familie en vrienden zichzelf verrijken ten koste van de bevolking…… Al-Sisi heeft onder meer een paar paleizen laten bouwen, waarover hij durfde te zeggen dat die werden gebouwd voor het Egyptische volk….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Knettergek deze psychopathisch gewelddadige dief en hufter!!
Ali heeft zelfs het leger opgeroepen in te grijpen, een nogal vreemde zaak, daar het leger ook zwaar corrupt is (het leger heeft o.a. zelfs fabrieken en boerderijen)….. Bovendien was nu juist het leger verantwoordelijk voor de staatsgreep tegen Morsi, waar gegarandeerd ook de CIA bij betrokken is geweest, daar de houding van Morsi niet echt pro-VS was, om het maar zachtjes uit te drukken….. Met veel leugens geventileerd in de westerse pers en politiek werd Morsi zwart gemaakt, waarna het leger dus ingreep….

Bij die coup tegen Morsi zijn honderden mensen vermoord, daar zij demonstreerden tegen de coup waarmee de door hen democratisch gekozen president aan de kant werd gezet…. (de coup waarover de westerse politiek en de pers durfden te jubelen…) Maar liefst 60.000 mensen werden vastgezet, o.a. daar ze aanhangers van de Moslim Broederschap waren, een groepering die door al-Sisi terreurgroep wordt genoemd (ook in veel westerse landen staat de Moslim Broederschap te boek als terreurgroep….)…. Sindsdien werd en wordt elk verzet onmiddellijk de kop ingedrukt door al-Sisi en zijn kliek, ook een groot aantal mensen die afgelopen vrijdag richting Tahrirplein trokken werden onderweg aangevallen met traangas en ander geweld door politie in uniform en in burger….. Ondanks dat lijkt het er nu dus op dat men het niet langer pikt en niet bang is om de straat op te gaan zo bleek ook afgelopen zaterdagavond in meerdere Egyptische steden….
Succes en sterkte voor de demonstranten in Egypte!

 Het volgende artikel werd eerder gepubliceerd op Middle East Eye en werd door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media:

Protests Break Out in Cairo as Egyptians Demand President Sisi’s Removal

September 20, 2019 at 6:44 pm
Written by Middle East Eye
(MEE) — Egyptian activists held protests against the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in one of the first demonstrations since the former army general tightened his grip on the country.

Videos posted on social media on Friday showed demonstrators gathering in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the site of the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
Protesters also gathered in Alexandria, Suez and Gharbiya to call for an end to Sisi’s rule.
“The people want to topple the regime,” shouted demonstrators in Tahrir Square, according to a video posted on Twitter, echoing the chants of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa.
#TahrirSquare
A Middle East Eye correspondent in Cairo said as many as 200 protesters heading towards Tahrir Square were “violently dispersed” late Friday.
“No deaths, but I saw about 20-25 people arrested and held in police trucks. Some were released later. Currently downtown is full of riot police and plain-clothes policemen,” said the correspondent, who remained anonymous because of the restrictions on journalists in the country.
Protesters had taken to side streets, gathering in small groups chanting “leave” and “down down with Sisi Mubarak”.
Tear gas was used to disperse demonstrators near Tahrir, and dozens have been arrested.
Most downtown shops that normally stay open late Friday were closed.
The protests began in the virtual space, as anti-Sisi hashtags had been trending for weeks on social media amid increasing frustration with economic conditions and lack of freedoms in the North African country.
By the early hours of Saturday morning in Egypt, the hashtag #ميدان_التحرير (#Tahrir Square) was among most popular trends worldwide on Twitter.


 Friday’s protests came after Egyptian actor and real estate developer Mohamed Ali had posted videos ostensibly depicting acts of corruption by Sisi and the Egyptian ruling class.

The 43-year-old Egyptian whistleblower has released more than a dozen videos from self-exile in Spain, alleging that officials misappropriated millions in public funds for their personal projects.
Over the past 15 years, as the owner of a property company that contracted with the Egyptian military on major construction projects, Ali said he has had a front-row seat for all of it – and he’s speaking out now because he hasn’t been paid.
It was Ali who called for the protest on Friday after a football super cup match between Al Ahly and Zamalek.
In a video posted in the early hours of Saturday, Ali called on Egypt’s Defence Minister Mohamed Zaki to remove Sisi.
“You see how the Egyptian people are doing. I hope no escalation happens. Please, your honour, issue an order to arrest Mr. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi… I hope that you side with the Egyptian people,” Ali said, addressing Zaki.
“We must all stand together and forget any [disagreements] between us. He must be punished.”
Ali told Zaki that the army is tasked with the protection of the Egyptian people, not an individual, no matter how important he is – referring to Sisi.
Ali saluted the protesters, saying Friday’s demonstrations helped relieve his pain of the past eight years.
“I’m happy. May God help you succeed. Patriots and brave – this is the Egyptian people,” he said.
Reports of mismanagement of public funds and extravagant presidential palaces struck a chord with many Egyptians, who have been suffering economically under Sisi’s austerity measures.
“Now you can see families and friends who rarely discussed politics or who had very different opinions agreeing on [Ali’s] statements,” Noura, a retired journalist who wished to be identified only by her first name because of political conditions in Egypt, told Middle East Eye earlier this week.
Noura said she will participate in the protests that Ali has encouraged: “We should not be afraid of the regime, and people should come together to express their discontent.”
‘Pretty Big’
Khaled Elgindy, a fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, said he was hesitant to assess the situation in Egypt based on the social media posts of the protests.
Still, he said the eruption of demonstrations – even if they are small – in several cities under such an autocratic government that has a “zero tolerance” policy against dissent shows the growing frustration of Egyptians.
“We know social media people have a tendency to get ahead of themselves, but the fact that even a small number would show up to protest in multiple locations in Egypt, I think, is pretty big given how repressive this regime has been,” Elgindy told MEE.
On Friday, Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, also said the fact that the protesters are risking their lives to demonstrate against their government is a sign of the dire situation in Egypt.

Sarah Leah Whitson

✔@sarahleah1

The huge personal harm these protesters are risking, given the near total ban on protests and viciousness of government, is an indication of just how desperate conditions in the country are.

No justice, no peace
No food, no peace
No jobs, no peace https://twitter.com/ganobi/status/1175151654582267904 …

Amr Magdi

✔@ganobi

Breaking: hundreds protest in several cities across Egypt tonight calling on Sisi to step down. Police arrested masses. Sisi’s government has to respect right to peaceful assembly and protests. Enough blood, enough brutality.

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The protests erupted as Sisi heads to New York for the UN General Assembly.
“Hey [Donald Trump], your favorite dictator is on his way to NYC, keep him there, Egyptians don’t want him back,” pro-democracy activist Iyad el-Baghdadi wrote on Twitter.
Many social media users changed their profile photos to plain red on Friday in solidarity with Egypt’s protesters.
Sisi came to power in a 2013 coup that ousted democratically elected former president Mohamed Morsi.
Since then, he has snuffed out all forms of opposition and jailed as many as 60,000 dissidents.
Sisi has also blacklisted Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group.
Early in his reign, he showed that he would not tolerate protests, when Egyptian forces killed hundreds of anti-coup protesters in Cairo in 2013.
By MEE staff / Republished with permission / Middle East Eye / Report a typo

Historicus spreekt schande over gebrek aan onderzoek door reguliere media naar Britse banden met dictaturen

Posted on by Telmo Claro
Mark Curtis, een historicus maakt zich flink pissig over het gebrek van de reguliere media om de Britse regering te confronteren met haar groeiende banden met repressieve regimes, ofwel dictaturen. Curtis begrijpt het niet helemaal, maar de media in GB (en de rest van het westen) zijn er vooral om de bestaande neoliberale status quo te bewaren, maar dat terzijde……
De Britse minister van internationale ontwikkeling. Andrew Murrison, heeft gesteld dat GB een sterke partner is van ‘de Egyptische reis’ die tot economische hervormingen* moet leiden…… De Britse regering ondersteunt momenteel 16 projecten in Egypte, inclusief het UK Action Against Corruption Programme (UAACP)…….. Voorts werkt GB ook op het gebied van ‘veiligheid’ samen met Egypte……
De neoliberale Britse regering had zelfs het gore lef te stellen dat de Egyptische overgang naar democratie de potentie heeft om een voorbeeld in de regio te zijn….. (als het gvd niet zo’n enorme puinhoop was in Egypte wat betreft de schendingen van mensenrechten, executies enz., zou je je daadwerkelijk doodlachen……)
In 2013 heeft het Egyptische leger bij de coup van al-Sisi 900 mensen vermoord en meer dan 1.000 mensen (van licht tot zwaar) verwond……
De Egyptische overheid martelt, verkracht en dood tegenstanders en ondanks dat steunen westerse landen, waaronder Nederland de Egyptische dictatuur….. De VS is de grootste ‘donor’ van de bloedige dictatuur in Egypte en geeft het land jaarlijks 1 miljard aan militaire hulp……. GB steekt in totaal 67 miljoen pond in Egypte en dat voor 16 projecten……

En dan durft het westen nog steeds een grote bek over de democratisch gekozen Syrische president Assad te hebben en dat op basis van leugens, terwijl in Egypte de mensenrechten openlijk worden geschonden, een land dat de ene misdaad tegen de menselijkheid na de andere begaat…….

Historian calls out media for failing to question UK’s ‘ever-growing’ links with repressive regime

Ed Sykes
18th September 2019
Afbeeldingsresultaat voor Historian calls out media for failing to question UK’s ‘ever-growing’ links with repressive regime
On 17 September, historian Mark Curtis slammed the media for failing to hold the British government to account over its increasing links with Egypt’s repressive elitist regime. Tweeting a screenshot of a recent government announcement, he said:

Mark Curtis

@markcurtis30

UK has an “ever growing economic partnership” (and military) with Egyptian regime whose deep repression is also ever-growing. But fortunately for Whitehall, the corporate media corps is so disciplined there will be none of those embarrassing news articles. bit.ly/2kkRobp

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An ‘ever-growing partnership’ amid corruption allegations
The 15 September announcement quoted international development minister Andrew Murrison calling the UK “a strong partner of Egypt and its economic reform journey” and speaking of “our ever-growing economic partnership”. Indeed, the British government currently has 16 ‘active projects’ in Egypt, including the UK Action Against Corruption Programme ([UAACP] with a budget of £39,126,318) and two Egypt Country Programmes (with a combined budget of £27,992,471).
The latter pledge to “support Egypt’s economic reform agenda in support of the IMF [International Monetary Fund] programme”, and also involves “security cooperation”.

Elsewhere, the UK government has said:

Egypt’s transition to a democratic state has the potential to be the role model for many other states in the region.

At the moment, however, Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is facing allegations from a former military contractor that he has spent “millions of dollars of public money on palaces, villas, and hotels”. And as academic Dalia Fahmy told Middle East Eye:

This comes at a time of [IMF-backed] austerity programmes in Egypt, the rising cost of basic goods, and at a time where President Sisi has asked the average Egyptian to sacrifice even more for the future of the country…

For the average Egyptian to see state funds misappropriated to bankroll the building of luxury homes for the president and his family during times of austerity, that seems to cut deeper than the revelation of government corruption.

El-Sisi has denied misusing public funds.
“Unprecedented levels of repression” (and Western support)
In an open letter to the UN Human Rights Council on 17 September, 18 organisations (including Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders) insisted:

Since the last review of Egypt’s record in 2014, human rights violations have increased sharply and the undersigned organisations and our partners have documented unprecedented levels of repression against human rights organisations and human rights defenders.

As signatory Human Rights Watch explained:

The organizations made a series of recommendations concerning the death penalty, torture, violence against women and girls, detention of activists and rights defenders, and a crackdown on freedom of expression and assembly, among other human rights violations.

Despite the above, the UK isn’t the only “strong partner” of el-Sisi’s regime. The US is also a major long-term supporter of the state. As Reuters reported in 2015, “Egypt is the second-largest recipient of U.S. military assistance after Israel”. In fact, it routinely gets over a billion dollars in military aid each year.
Earlier this month, the US released $1.3bn in military aid. An official memo “waived human rights conditions” despite admitting that el-Sisi has “restricted freedom of expression”, “actively prevented civil dissent and cut down on democratic reforms”. The Egyptian government also approved constitutional changes in April which could see el-Sisi stay on as president until 2030 while increasing his “power over the judiciary”. In 2014, 47.5% of Egypt’s eligible voters participated in an election where the vast majority elected him as president. Then, in the 2018 elections, only 41% of voters turned up to vote – again handing him an overwhelming victory.
When will the media hold our governments to account?
El-Sisi overthrew Egypt’s democratically-elected government in a military coup in 2013. Weeks later, he oversaw a state massacre of civilians. This caused over 900 deaths and injured over 1,000 people. And as Al Jazeera reported in August 2019, “no one has ever been brought to trial and the Egyptian government has yet to transparently investigate the massacre”.
Despite the allegations of corruption and mass repression, however, Western support remains.
The US still gives el-Sisi’s regime vast amounts of military aid; and the UK continues to sell it weapons. They do exactly the same with many other brutal regimes around the world. And amazingly, they still act like they have the moral authority to lecture other nations on democracy and human rights.
You’ll see almost no coverage of this in the corporate media, though. Because that wouldn’t be good for business.
We deserve so much better – from both our politicians and our media. And we’ll only get that when we stand up and demand better.

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* Economische hervorming aan de hand van een IMF programma, waarbij het volk nog verder wordt uitgekleed dan voor mogelijk werd gehouden…..

PS: begrijp overigens niet dat men nog steeds met vakantie naar Egypte gaat, zal er dan ook geen traan om laten als Nederlanders en andere toeristen bij een aanslag om het leven komen…..