Appeal for Solidarity - Egypt

international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press Tuesday April 25, 2006 22:47 by Sinéad Ní Bhroin sineadnibhroin at eircom dot net

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Appeal for Solidarity

At about 3:00 am on Monday 24 April, the Egyptian police raided a solidarity sit-in organised by Kefaya members and other activists of the democratic movement in front of the Judges Club in Cairo.

The sit-in aimed at expressing solidarity with the Judges in their sit-in (inside their club) in protest of the state's attempt to terrorize the club and the reformist judges from exposing violations and corruption and rigging of the last parliamentary elections (The state - represented by the appointed Juridical Supreme Council - decided to send two of the leading judges to a committee to penalize them, and the committee, which would congregate on Thursday 27 April, have the power to lay the two judges off).

The police raid on the dawn of the 24th of April resulted in arresting 12 activists, and in beating a university professor and a judge. The 12 activists were sent to the prosecutor office who decided to put them in custody for 15 days.

More repression is expected in the coming few days as the 2 reformist judges are expected to stand in front of the committee on Thursday morning, and as the democratic movement is planning to escalate its solidarity campaign.

Your solidarity is needed. If Mubarak's repressive regime succeeds in crushing the judges reformist movement and the solidarity campaign, this would be a big setback to the democratic movement in Egypt.

We need your support in whichever way you can: publishing news of the event in the press, solidarity statements, letters by MPs MEPs, demos in front of Egyptian embassies.. etc.

The detained activists, and the movement, need your help and solidarity.. do not hesitate.

Solidarity is Strength