You Have Not Yet Been Defeated by Alaa Abd el-Fattah

Author:Alaa Abd el-Fattah
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: human rights;political science;social justice;civil rights;geopolitics;government;political philosophy;civil disobedience;injustice;civil rights movement;political books;justice;politics;middle east;political science books;world politics;international politics;international human rights;parenting;essays;short stories;health;sociology;buddhism;social;self help;psychology;family;philosophy;spirituality;feminism;war;law;how to;marriage;culture;biography;love;economics;social science;pregnancy
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2022-01-21T18:22:48+00:00

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68 A very popular satirical television show.

69 A widely used term that refers to state institutions whose power is, in practice, not subject to any popular, parliamentary or legal oversight. Akin to saying ‘the powers that be’. There is no formal legal ground for this classification but it is understood to mean institutions such as the presidency, the military, the intelligence servies and the State Security Police.

INTERVIEW WITH DEMOCRACY NOW!

Amy Goodman: Today [31 March 2014], a Democracy Now! broadcast exclusive. Egypt’s electoral commission announced Sunday the country’s presidential elections will be held in late May. At this point, the vote is widely expected to be won by Egypt’s former military chief, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who announced his resignation from the military last week to run for office. Sisi led the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi last summer. Since then, some 2,500 people have been killed, and at least 16,000 people arrested.

In our global broadcast exclusive today, we spend the hour with one of Egypt’s most prominent dissidents, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, speaking in his first extended interview since his release from prison after nearly four months behind bars. An Open Internet and political activist, Alaa has been at the forefront of the struggle for change in Egypt for many years and has the distinction of having been actively persecuted by the past four successive rulers in Egypt. In 2006, under the Mubarak regime, he was detained at a protest calling for independence of the judiciary and was jailed for forty-five days. In 2011, he emerged as a leading face of the revolution that forced Mubarak out of office. Later that year, under the rule of the military council that replaced Mubarak, he was jailed again, this time for fifty-six days. His son, Khaled, was born while he was behind bars. Then, during the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi, Alaa was issued an arrest warrant as part of a government crackdown on critical voices.

This past November, after the military’s ouster of Morsi and a brutal attack on the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters, the interim cabinet issued a draconian protest law to further crack down on any opposition. Dozens of people were arrested the next day at a protest near parliament, among them Alaa’s sister, Mona, who was eventually released. Despite the ‘No to Military Trials’ activist group publicly admitting to organizing the protest, prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for Alaa as the organizer of the event. He was jailed in the same prison ward as other leading activists Ahmed Maher and Mohamed Adel of the 6 April Youth Movement, as well as Ahmed Douma, whose health is deteriorating every day.

After 115 days behind bars, Alaa was finally brought before a judge, who released him on bail. His case is still ongoing. He says he expects to be convicted and sent back to prison. In the first interview since his release, Alaa discusses his imprisonment, the wave of repression in Egypt and the state of the revolution.

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