Posts Tagged ‘Journalists’

فيديو: شهادة الرفيق حسن شاهين، الصحفي وعضو حركة الاشتراكيين الثوريين

Comrade Hassan, journalist and activist with the Revolutionary Socialists, giving his testimony re the army’s attack…

الإعتداء على مصور “أون تي في” عند مديرية أمن الجيزة

11 May 2006 police crackdown on Cairo Spring

I received this message from my friend Hannah Allam…
Hi, ya Hossam! …. you’ll never believe what I found while cleaning out old emails. Attached is the sound Challiss McDonough recorded when Amn el Markazi attacked me when I was covering protests back in 2006! Not sure if you remember, but you helped pull me over a car to escape them. Challiss caught it all on tape – my screaming, the blows from the batons, and, best of all, you telling me at the end, “Good girl!” hahahahahahahaha! Classic!
It also reminded me how long you’ve been at this, and how much the revolution must mean to you.
Enjoy,
Hannah

May 2006 police crackdown by Hossam El-Hamalawy

“We didn’t have this revolution to replace Mubarak with the military as a taboo”

Reuters reports…

Hossam el-Hamalawy is used to being in trouble with the authorities. State security hauled him in three times for his activism when Hosni Mubarak was in power. He hoped Egypt’s uprising would end such summonses. It didn’t.
He was called in again in May for questioning. But one element changed. It wasn’t internal security but an army general who wanted to question the blogger over accusations he made on television about abuses by the military police.
“We didn’t have this revolution … so that we would replace Hosni Mubarak with the military as a taboo,” said Hamalawy, insisting that the army must change its ways.
“The military institution is part of the old regime,” he said. “It will have to go through its own change in revolutionary Egypt.”
Quite what that change might look like is perhaps the biggest question facing Egyptians now.
The army has vowed to hand power to civilians, after it took took control when Mubarak was ousted on Feb. 11.
Few doubt it wants to quit the grimy world of day-to-day government but, at the same time, few expect the generals to submit to civilian command when they return to barracks.
Instead, analysts say the military is likely to slip into the political shadows, as a protector of national security — a broad brief that would allow some back-seat intervention — and rigorously guard its business interests and other privileges.
The military has after all supplied Egypt’s rulers, including former air force commander Mubarak, for six decades.
“I do feel they are sincere about handing over power to a civilian government,” said Hamalawy, who writes the arabawy.org blog. “But that does not mean they will give up … their role in the Egypt political arena.”
After summons for interrogation prompted protests, Hamalawy said the general who quizzed him on May 31 promised to examine evidence he provided of any abuses by the military police.

VIDEO – Stop the army’s crackdown on journalists لا لترهيب الصحفيين

Dima ديما

Al-Jazeera journalist Dima el-Khatib, one of the reporters I have so much respect for, standing outside the military court, as dozens gathered on Sunday, in solidarity with journalist Rasha Azab and her editor Adel Hammouda, who’ve been summoned by the military prosecutor over Rasha’s reporting of torture and human rights violations the military police has been involved in.

I heard some of the most militant anti-army chants today, even when the protest was not that big. Demonstrators accused the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of being US agents, cowards in front of the Israelis but only brave when facing Egyptian protesters.

Egypt’s military clamp down on bloggers

Graffiti جرافيتي

Nadim spraying graffiti in front of the Military Court in solidarity with Reem and I.. Thanks for all those who showed up yesterday for the protest.

Egypt’s Thin Red Line طنطاوي وحسني حاجة واحدة

آخر كلام: صحفيون أمام القضاء العسكري