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neesoj (no login)
Posted Jan 21, 2009 2:46 PM
so i was googling USA Detainee (having been one for noooo reason....) ...and came across this article, from
http://action.humanrightsfirst.org/campaign/AbuFajr2/explanation
so i wonder if the woman in the dream is the woman in the article below, being held because she is an activist demanding rights for teh Bedouins?
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Mosaad Suleiman Hassan, better known by his pen name Mosaad Abu Fajr, 41, is an employee of the Suez Canal Company, and also an activist and writer from North Sinai who has written about problems faced by the Bedouin community in the Sinai on his blog Wedna Ne`ish (We Want To Live).
The Bedouin community in Sinai has long complained of being marginalized politically, economically, and culturally by the central government of Egypt. Their grievances include a lower standard of services and infrastructure compared to other parts of Egypt, difficulties in land ownership, and heavy-handed security measures, among others.
Wedna Ne`ish is not only the name of Abu Fajr's blog, but also refers to a movement founded by him and other Bedouin activists in early 2007. One of the movement's first public activities was a demonstration held on July 30, 2007, in the city of Rafah at Massoura Square, during which activists made several demands, ranging from the revocation of trumped up charges to the granting of fishing permits in the Mediterranean. Authorities responded by breaking up the demonstration violently.
On November 30, 2007, further protests took place in the cities of Rafah and Sheikh Zuwayd. Demonstrators called for the release of prisoners and an end to excessive force used against Sinai residents, among other issues.
Following the July 30 and November 30 demonstrations, a number of charges were lodged against Abu Fajr and fellow activist Yahya Abu Nasira, such as participation in a gathering of more than five persons, endangering public order, and preventing public officers from performing their duties.
Abu Fajr was taken into custody on December 26, 2007, reportedly to prevent him from taking part in yet another sit-in by members of the Bedouin community.
Although Abu Fajr's arrest and detention are clearly connected to his political activism and participation in demonstrations, his prominence outside the Sinai is in large part due to his blog's coverage of the marginalization and repression of the Sinai's Bedouin community. This is not the first time blogs have unsettled the authorities and attracted repression. The Egyptian authorities have detained a number of bloggers who managed to intersect with, and become a mobilizing force for, much broader opposition movements by tapping into issues about which there exists a groundswell of concern.
Since Abu Fajr's detention, three different courts in el-Arish and Isma'iliya reviewing the charges against him have ordered that all charges against him be dropped and he be released.
However, relying on the Emergency Law (which first passed in 1958 and has been in effect in Egypt continuously since 1981), State Security ('Amn al-Dawla) has continued to hold Abu Fajr in custody.
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