Posts Tagged ‘BBC’
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VIDEO – Egyptian bloggers and dissent
Aalam Wassef’s videos over the past years have been inspirational to me and many other Egyptians. I never got to meet him in person till the uprising, and I’m truly honored.
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A paranoid regime
I got this message from a BBC source:
A team from BBC Arabic was in Cairo to record a big prog about elections, with audience and invited parliamentary candidates, including MB of course. They agreed with a local video company, booked studio and in the last minute .. guess what? The company got a phone call , and the whole thing was canceled on spurious grounds of course. now they are coming home empty-handed.
if any further evidence was needed for the govt growing paranoia …
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Mubarak is a force for stability and good, says Obama
Obama has once again exposed himself for the hypocrite he is. Interviewed by the BBC yesterday, Obama showered Mubarak with praise…
…while acknowledging that there are “obviously” issues of human rights in the Middle East, the President avoided specifics that many Egyptians may have been looking for.
He said President Hosni Mubarak was a force for stability, without commenting on the President’s domestic policies. “He has been a stalwart ally, in many respects, to the United States. He has sustained peace with Israel, which is a very difficult thing to do in that region.”
The counterparts will meet in private for the first time during Obama’s visit to Cairo.
When Webb asked whether he considered Mubarak to be “authoritarian,” Obama deferred. “I tend not to use labels for folks,” he said.
Hossam El-Hamalawy, activist and blogger at arabawy.org, said he felt that Obama was not going far enough. He said that Obama’s silence regarding Mubarak was a “clear endorsement of his regime.”
“The pro-democracy movement here has allies in the west, but they are not in the Whitehouse,” El-Hamalawy said. Despite Obama’s differences from the past, El-Hamalawy was not confident that he will be fundamentally different from his predecessor.
AUC Political Science Professor Walid Kazziha said Obama’s reluctance to emphasize a purely pro-democracy policy was understandable. “He’s not going to raise that issue against any Arab regime that he considers to be moderate,” said Kazziha. “They’re opting for stability rather than democracy.”
In all cases, it seems the old man isn’t attending the speech after all!
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Solidarity with Alan Johnston تضامنوا مع الصحفي المختطف آلان جونستون
Cairo-based journalists and photographers will stage a one-hour sit-in tomorrow Monday, 2pm, in front of the Press Syndicate, in solidarity with the BBC journalist Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped in Gaza seven weeks ago…
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BBC poll: One third support torture
A BBC survey in 25 countries on the usage of torture showed some depressing results. One third of those surveyed insisted torture could be used in prison on circumstances.
More than 27,000 people in 25 countries were asked if torture was acceptable if it could provide information to save innocent lives.
In Egypt, according to the poll, 65% voted against employing all sorts of torture, while 25% saw it legitimate under “some circumstances.”
And surprise, surprise:
Israel has the largest percentage of those polled endorsing the use of a degree of torture on prisoners, with 43% saying they agreed that some degree of torture should be allowed.
You can read the full BBC report here.
ABOUT 3ARABAWY
Hossam el-Hamalawy is an Egyptian journalist from Cairo
hossam [at] arabawy [dot] org
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