Egypt
Ahmed said’s friends: “The freedom”
Egyptian Doctor, Activist. Ahmed Said has for the democracy in his country is involved. For more than two months, he sits for now without judgment in detention. His friends in Frankfurt and Berlin to fight against the injustice and the Forgotten.
In the night it rained. The soil is moist, it is cold in Frankfurt. From the basement of the house of the student Council of the Frankfurt University of applied Sciences get Karin Gebacht (Name changed) and other activists, an amplifier, microphone and cable. In front of the Egyptian Consulate they want in on the fate of their friend Ahmed Said.
Ahmed Said was on 19. November 2015 arrested. Accused him of participating in an unsanctioned Demonstration, he is not the only one on this day disappears. For hours, nobody knows where Ahmed goes, at some point, he appears on an official list a police station in Cairo. Until the trial on 13. December, he remains in police custody. In this time he writes a letter from prison, by
Amnesty International
it will be released.
64 days in detention
Ahmed Said several times transferred, on 13. December, then the judgment against him and other activists: two years in prison. Since the verdict, there are, according Gebacht no longer in contact with, detained, he is in the notorious Tora prison, the Locals call it the “Guantanamo” of Egypt.
According to Gebacht from the “friends of Ahmed Said” flow is little information about the conditions of detention, they “trickle” only. The contact is sparse, the image remain diffuse. Karin Gebacht sees it as a Puzzle, to the family and friends every day work, every piece of Information is precious. Gebacht and her supporters had Said during his time as a visiting physician in Frankfurt met. Only a few days left now before Said again before the court must appear, 3000 kilometres South of Frankfurt.
The “friends of Ahmed Said” on the way to the Egyptian Consulate
Public as a protection from the arbitrariness of
From the shock, “a friend has been arrested”, to use for political prisoners in Egypt, it was a “gradual process”, says Karin Gebacht. The circle of friends sees Ahmed said’s fate on behalf of all political prisoners. You want to show that he is popular abroad. This is to prevent that Ahmed simply “disappears”.
Today go for on the street. The University of applied Sciences Frankfurt is from the Egyptian Consulate only a short bus ride away. The green strip as a place for the rally was logged on, turns out to be a muddy trail in a Parkglände in front of the consular post. Despite the adverse conditions, will gather about fifty supporters. There is a call to the citizens of Egypt, the German fiancée said, and his sister, directed by Audiobotschaft to the world. Ahmed Said, have a dream of “freedom, Dignity and justice”, he “couldn’t be silent”.
The activists in Frankfurt in solidarity with the Ideals of Ahmed Said
A banner bears the inscription “We are the freedom” in allusion to Ahmed’s letter from prison in which it is said that the security forces would have mocked at me: “so you are the of the Revolution, so you’re the one that Egypt is free.” Between the political Call for the release of, Advocacy for human right and freedom, is the personal connectedness is palpable. This meeting is not purely political, it is personal. As said’s letter from prison is recited, the flow of tears.
A “himmelschreiendes wrong”
Comedian and Journalist Frank Markus Barwasser
Before the new court date on the 27th. January has the circle of friends in addition
a Petition will be published.
You should show that not only close relatives and friends of political prisoners after Egypt look. Supported the Petition, not only of parties and associations. Among the original signatories, see three cabaret artists: Volker Pispers, Max Uthoff and Frank Markus Barwasser. In the DW-Interview says Barwasser, it is going to be “humanism and human rights”. The situation in Syria had “our view of the Region is very strongly centered” but “it would be a himmelschreiendes wrong, just the bravest to forget.” The comedian wants to very clear the message to send: “we are not no matter, we ask, we ask for a”
The comedian also comments on the debate in Germany: “It’s constantly of our values to the speech. Then it is also consistent when we advocate that those with these values represented nothing happens to” the signers of The Petition, and the friends of Ahmed Said, looking deliberately to Berlin. The criticism of the human rights situation in Egypt was an integral part of the “critical partnership”, which is the Federal government with Cairo wants to maintain.
At first glance, the Protest of the friends said, at least at the äygptischen Consulate in Frankfurt no effect shown. “No one there”, says the police to the activists. Eventually appears but then a face at a window. That Ahmed Said will not simply disappear without a trace, with this hope leave his Frankfurt friends of the Park in front of the Consulate.