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Egyptian Security
Services launched in the early hours of Sunday morning an
unprecedented crackdown against four Egyptian-Arab
high-ranking Brotherhood figures in
Cairo and Al-Gharbia governorates.
Dr. Abdel-Moneim
Abu el-Fotouh, Member of the Executive Bureau of the Muslim
Brotherhood, and Secretary-General of the Arab Medical Union was
the first detainees and one of the most important public and
trade union figures in Egypt and the Arab world. Will-Known for
his high to human and people’s rights. He has played a key role
in the pursuit of Israeli war criminals and in promoting rights
of trade union doctors to strengthen the role of the Arab
physicians in the humanitarian issues in the conflict zones such
as Darfur, Iraq, Palestine and Somalia. The arrests have
included Dr. Jamal Abdul Salam, Head of the Emergency Relief
Committee of the Arab Medical Union, also well-known for his
efforts in the charitable and relief organizations especially
under siege, and emergency relief. He is also one of the
leaders promoting relief and humanitarian efforts where he is
also a distinguished political fighter mostly devoting his time
to relief work.. He was released on February 5th after he was
detained for more than fifty days under the pretext of efforts
made in supporting the Palestinians in Gaza.
It is revealed that
the former legal adviser to the Ministry of Justice and Expert
on the Islamic Financial Transactions Dr. Fathi Lashin, as one
of the detainees and Mr. Abdul Rahman Al-Jamal (Algharbia) from
the Ministry of Education is also among those arrested.
The Arab
commission for human rights reported
sums of money confiscated during the raid on Dr Fathi Lashin's
house however they have not been able to report the exact
amount. The detainees are expected to be presented before the
prosecution later today.
The Arab Commission for Human Rights regards
the administrative detention as a means to dismember the
individual’s civil, political, and professional rights, and a
slack means by the Egyptian authorities in which they have
resorted, to deter those who disagree with the regime. The ACHR
condemns these arbitrary detentions and sees Dr. Abdel Moneim
Abul Fotouh’s arrest as also a direct assault on the Arab
Medical Union, demanding the immediate release of the four
detainees
Paris 28/6/2009
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