Alaa Abd el-Fattah

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Abd el-Fattah (2008)

Alaa Abd el-Fattah ( Arabic علاء عبد الفتاح, DMG ʿAlāʾ ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ ; * 1981 in Cairo ) is an Egyptian blogger and software developer .

Life

Abd el-Fattah is the son of lawyer and human rights activist Ahmad Seif el-Islam and mathematics professor and political activist Leila Soueif . He has two sisters ( Mona Seif and Sanaa Seif ) who are also politically active.

He was detained from October 30, 2011 to December 25, 2011 on questionable charges . The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights campaigned for his release. His mother went on a hunger strike to protest his detention.

He was arrested again in January 2014 and sentenced to 15 years in prison in June of that year. He was released again on September 15, 2014.

On February 23, 2015, he was again sentenced to five years in prison by a court in Cairo . After serving his sentence, he was released from prison on March 29, 2019.

In September 2019, he and over 250 authors criticized the city of Dortmund for awarding the Nelly Sachs Prize to the writer Kamila Shamsie because of her support for the controversial BDS campaign ( Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel), which the jury did not discuss was informed, had revoked.

He was arrested again on September 29, 2019 on charges of spreading false news. Amnesty International made serious allegations of torture against the Egyptian security forces. The blogger would have been blindfolded, undressed, beaten, kicked, threatened and verbally abused.In December 2021, he was sentenced to five years in prison after having been in prison for over two years by then.

interview

  • Elisabeth Lehmann and Khalid El Kaoutit: Do you remember, back then on the Tahrir . Radio feature. Radio SRF 2 Kultur, April 8, 2016 ( online )

See also

Web links

Commons : Alaa Abd El-Fatah  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c On the death of Ahmad Seif El-Islam - "Instead, I passed the prison cell on to you" , August 27, 2014, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
  2. ↑ Der Standard on December 26, 2011: Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah is free. Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
  3. ↑ "Egyptian blogger from prison: 'Tried to celebrate for me'" , taz , November 18, 2011.
  4. ↑ Associated Press: UN calls for release of Egyptian blogger. In: www.thedailynewsegypt.com. Daily News Egypt November 11, 2011, archived from the original on November 15, 2011 ; accessed on August 25, 2013 .
  5. ^ REUTERS: REUTERS: Leading Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah freed on bail. Retrieved September 15, 2014 .
  6. ↑ "Alaa Abdel Fattah sentenced to five years of maximum security prison" , Aswat Masriya , February 23, 2015. Access date: February 23, 2015.
  7. ^ "Egypt Releases Prominent Democracy Activist After 5 Years in Prison" , Haaretz , March 29, 2019. Access date: March 29, 2019.
  8. ^ The Right to Boycott. In: London Review of Books. September 23, 2019, accessed September 25, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Egypt protests: Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah arrested amid rare unrest. In: BBC News. September 29, 2019, accessed on September 29, 2019 .
  10. ↑ news.ORF.at. Retrieved December 21, 2021 .
  11. ↑ Markus Reuter: Human Rights - Egypt sentenced famous blogger Alaa Abd el-Fattah to five years in prison. In: Netzpolitik.org . December 20, 2021, accessed on December 20, 2021 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Abd el-Fattah, Alaa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abd el-Fatah, Alaa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian blogger and software developer
BIRTH DATE 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo