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Egypt mobarak tensions { March 24 2003 } >Attached by the end is a link to the press release from The Egyptian >Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) >on March 24, 2003 Cairo, Egypt > >(Kindly distribute and/or publish immediately) > > >Summary: > >The kidnapping of Hamdin Sabahee (a journalist and current member of >Egypt's Parliament) in front of his home in Mohandiseen, Cairo took place >today after he requested investigating Egypt's minister for interior >affairs for the illegitimate use of excessive force by Egyptian police >against anti-war demonstrators last Thursday and Friday. > >The people's representative himself, Mr. Sabahee, was badly beaten up by >police forces at the Lawyers' Syndicate last Thursday where he gathered >with other lawyers to protest the war. In the same day his office director >Ms Niveen Ahmed Samir was arrested and later ordered her detention 4 days >pending investigation by Azbakia Prosecutor, Cairo with the charges of >Participating in an assembly consisting of more than five persons. The >police forces have arrested and detained several hundreds of >demonstrators, many of them have been severely beaten up and injured both >during the arrest and later at police stations. The defendants include >students, doctors, engineers, lawyers, journalists as well as others from >a wide variety of professions. > >Hisham Mubarak Legal Center HMLC in Cairo Egypt >(hmlc@link.net) in a Press >Release today has drew the attention to the similarity of what is going on >in Egypt, with what was going on in Egypt shortly before the dramatic end >of Sadat's era by his assassination, and focusing on some specific >incidents such as mass detention, arresting parliament members and >attacking lawyers' syndicate > >Mubarak has been governing Egypt with emergency laws since he came to >power more than 20 years ago. Since then, he has refused to appoint a >vice-president as he was vice-president when he took power after Sadat;s >assassination. > >It is known that the majority of Egyptians are totally against the >"American" attack on Iraq contradicting with Mubarak's policies that aim >at keeping the American money (more than two $billion/year donation) that >his regime receives as donation. Mubarak has quietly granted the United >States overflight rights for combat aircraft in addition to occasionally >blaming Saddam for the attack. Recently he sent a delegation to negotiate >with US officials the price of his cooperation that was estimated to be >around $3.2 billion. Mubarak is believed to be grooming his son to rule >after him witch is strongly rejected by many Egyptian political activists >that have access to a small portion of Egyptian media which is dominated >by Mubarak's regime. What is considered to be a real threat for Mubarak >now is the joining of non-political activists to the movement against him, >diversifying his classical enemies of Islamists and leftists (that he is >used to firmly suppress) to a wider spectrum of Egyptian public from all >backgrounds marked by the last demonstration few days ago to drop down his >huge picture that was hanging on the headquarter of his National >Democratic Party. > >In a recent visit to Cairo, during last February, we noticed a growing >sentiment against Mubarak and his government due to the getting worse >economy and continuing decrease of the value of Egyptian pound. > > > >Michael Mohammed Joseph > >Frankfurt - Germany > > >Related Links: > >Human Rights Watch Release > >http://hrw.org/press/2003/03/egypt032403.htm > > >EOHR Release > >http://www.eohr.org/PRESS/2003/3-23.htm > >Islamonline about opposing Mubarak policies > >http://www.islam-online.net/english/News/2003-03/21/article07.shtml > > >Washingtonpost coverage of Arab demonstrations > >http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7729-2003Mar21.html > > >Gorbachev >on the Nile- >(washingtonpost.com) >Mocking Mubarak's Son > >The Arabic Press Release of EOHR: > >http://www.eohr.org/ar/PRESS/2003/3-23.html > >If you believe that you received this release by mistake write to >news@impulse4u.de

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