Alaa is free
We got the good news a couple days back that Alaa would be released soon - Elijah Zarwan has spoken with Alaa and reports that he’s “exhausted after a terrible night in the police station jail, but happy to be free and heading home.” There are indications that the 26 remaining Kefaya prisoners may also be released soon.
This is wonderful news for Alaa, Manal and the activist community in Egypt as a whole. Let’s hope for some good news for our friend Hao Wu soon - unfortunately, we’ve had no good news on his case for a very long time.
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:58 pm
[...] Elijah Zarwan writing on Global Voices informs us that the Award-winning Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Seif al-Islam Abd al-Fattah whose arrest by the Egyptian forces I blogged about over a month ago, has been freed. Ethan informs that there are indications that the 26 remaining Kefaya prisoners may also be released soon. Alaa’s wife, Manal, thinks he will be back home by late Thursday at the latest. Excellent news indeed or as they are saying on some Egyptian blogs, MABROUK YA SHABAB! MABROUK YA TENNIN YA BAMBY! (Congratulations, guys! Congratulations, you pink dragon!) [...]