A-Infos (en) France, Alternative Libertaire, STOP THE REPRESSION IN EGYPT! SOLIDARITY WITH THE LIBERTARIAN SOCIALIST MOVEMENT! SUPPORT THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE! (fr)

Last Sunday, January 21, several political activists were arrested after the riots 
provoked by the police in front of the Alexandria court of justice. Among them are four 
members of the Libertarian Socialist Movement, a member of the Revolutionary Socialist 
organization (Trotskyist) and 16 other unaffiliated. All are activists who fight against 
the reactionary regime of the Muslim Brotherhood. After January 21, the defendants were 
wrongfully imprisoned for twenty days. Today, they are released on bail, except the 
Trotskyist militant, and they all still awaiting trial. ---- This sentence is not a 
coincidence: these activists are deeply involved in union and neighborhood mobilization, 
and they are fierce opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood. This happens in a context in 
which the police have shown, for the last few months, great brutality against the 
protesters and demonstrators. Besides, all the political activists are followed, receive 
anonymous threats and are harassed. Proof of this is the raid against political activists 
who distributed leaflets in the streets of Alexandria a few days after the events of 
January 21.

The accession to power of the Muslim Brotherhood, after the fall of Mubarak, does not 
bring the winds of change, as would have thought those who believed that after Mubarak 
everything would be fine. The Islamist government demonstrated a paranoid absolutism, 
under the watchful eye of the military. Their political project is the liquidation of 
political opposition, starting with the most radical elements, especially as this 
objective is facilitated by the silence of the associations defending human rights and 
that of the opposition parties. Given the explosive social context and the protest 
mouvement that is strengthening and radicalizing within the population, the government of 
the Muslim Brotherhood does its best for the repression and the abuses that follow be 
dealt with in the shade, so that the great powers of the European Union do not marginalize 
it even more.

President Morsi leads a tyrannical and dictatorial policy and claims to be legitimately 
acting this way, although hardly more than 25% of the Egyptians voted for him in the 
Egyptian presidential election marked by nearly 50% abstention.

Therefore, we support the Egyptian youth and workers who rise up every day more numerous 
against this obscurantist, reactionary regime, which serves the interests of the Egyptian 
bourgeoisie.

We condemn the arrests and torture which the opponents to Morsi’s regime are submitted to. 
We demand the immediate and unconditional release of the 21 accused of Alexandria, as well 
as of all political prisoners held in Egyptian gaols.

For the immediate release and for the immediate cessation of proceedings against all the 
political prisoners in Egypt!

LET US GATHER AT TROCADÉRO PLACE IN PARIS,
Sunday, February 24 at 3:00 p.m.

TO DEMONSTRATE OUR SOLIDARITY!


Signatories:

Alternative Libertaire
Fédération Anarchiste


Related Link: http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/
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