April 25,2014
Source: Ikhwanweb
About seventeen thousand
detainees held on remand in the military junta's prisons have started a
hunger strike in protest against the gross injustice inflicted upon
them. They are illegally detained on open-ended remand, without any
justification. If released, they cannot possibly tamper with the
prosecution evidence, nor can they flee abroad. Their homes and work
places are well known to authorities.
In fact, held hostage, they
suffer tremendous ill-treatment and abuse. They can barely breathe in
cells packed with ten times the number of inmates they are meant for,
with no air vents. Neither their families nor their lawyers are allowed
to visit them. Worse still is horrendous and repeated torture, from
which no old man nor young minor is exempted, and which often includes
violent rape leading to death of detainees.
If anything, this exposes the
systematic policy of brutality followed by the mad military junta in
order to break the will of the Egyptian people. Coup authorities began
with murder, arson and bloodshed, and continue with false imprisonment
and torture, hoping the people would abandon their demands for freedom,
dignity and all their rights.
The generals are determined to
crush the people, together with their children and grandchildren, under
their bloody boots. But this will not happen, God willing: "…Honor
belongs to God and His Messenger, and to the Believers; but the
Hypocrites know not" (Quran 63:8).
If we look at the kinds of people
so imprisoned unjustly, we'd find they represent the entire Egyptian
people, from scientists, university professors and students to
engineers, doctors and lawyers – men and women, old and young, even
minors under fourteen. Some of those have been sentenced to death, some
to rigorous imprisonment for up to seventeen years, just for peacefully
protesting to express their rejection of the coup.
The Egyptian Observatory for
Rights and Freedoms has documented forty five violations against those
innocent men, women and youths, some committed by brutal and monstrous
police officers. Meanwhile, the prosecution service and the judiciary
are most lamentable. They commit dozens of violations of the law
themselves, although the people trust them with the task of dealing
justice and upholding law and order.
Evidently, there are secret
prisons that have been converted into slaughterhouses and torture
centers for innocent political detainees, like the notorious Aezoli
prison in Ismailia. Located within the confines of a military
encampment, this prison had been dedicated to military personnel who had
committed serious crimes. However, now it has opened its doors and
deadly dungeons for peaceful civilians. Indeed, this is only the tip of
the iceberg.
Numerous international human
rights organizations have strongly condemned the brutality of violations
committed against the Egyptian people. But it seems the heinous junta
do not care much for Egypt's reputation nor for Egypt itself or its
people. They are heartless ruthless monsters. They seek to drag Egypt
into the Syrian trajectory. But for whose sake, whose benefit, would
that be? In any event, this will not happen either, God willing.
On the other hand, the real
heroes will remain steadfast, fighting the battle of empty stomachs,
putting their health and lives at risk, not to demand their own freedom
alone, but the freedom of the whole of Egypt and its people. This is all
they can do now.
Therefore, the honorable,
patriotic Egyptian people must move to support those steadfast heroes.
It no longer suffices to tacitly condemn the mad military coup's bloody
crimes. Soon, patience and the empty stomachs will triumph over the most
advanced lethal weapons, and peaceful civilized humans over the brutal
monsters.
"…God will certainly aid those who aid His cause; for verily God is full of Strength, Exalted in Might and Power" (Quran 22:40).
Indeed… "God has full control of
all affairs, but most people do not know." The unjust oppressors will
soon see what destiny they will ultimately meet.
The Muslim Brotherhood
Cairo: 24 April 2014
Link: http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=31640.
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