The case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah and Egypt’s crushing of dissent | The Listening Post

As Egypt’s President el-Sisi kicks off a "National Dialogue" on human rights, the precarious fate of jailed writer and activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah exposes the grave climate for free speech in the country.

Contributors:
Mona Seif - Sister of Alaa Abd el-Fattah
Nancy Okail - President, Center for International Policy
Amr Khalifa - Political analyst
Sabrina Bennoui - Head of the Middle East desk, Reporters Without Borders

On our radar:
Fall from disgrace. Ex-journalist turned Prime Minister Boris Johnson is basically done at 10 Downing Street.

Media, monopolies and the rewriting of Chile’s constitution:
Chile is working on a new constitution that has some of Augusto Pinochet’s favourite news outlets fighting for their corporate lives.

Contributors:
Patricio Fernández - Member, Chilean Constitutional Convention Journalist & Founder, The Clinic
Jorge Saavedra - Author, The Media Commons and Social Movements
Claudio Fuentes - Historian, Diego Portales University; author, The Fraud: Chronicle on the Plebiscite of the 1980 Constitution
Belén Pellegrini - Journalist, La Neta

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00:00 Egypt & the case of Alaa Abdel Fattah
10:46 Boris gets memed by British media
12:44 Chile's media monopolies
22:56 Egypt's jailed journalists & media workers

[solomonberundi]

Just spent 4 days in Egypt. The bread lines, welfare lines full of egyptians + refugees coming from Ethiopia was overwhelming. I thought I was in beruit. Egypt was supposed to be the stable country in the middle east, but they are barely holding that country together. The wheat shortage is REAL! Its not a game.

[techtravels]

iINDIA IS NOT FAR BEHIND EGYPT WHEN IT COMES TO BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS HAPPENING IN INDIA AGAINST MINORITIES

[iamalli]

A simple example, Egypt people how they brought a dictatorship with fall of another dictatorship

[Jayjay]

It's not like Corporate Companies don't dictate society too.

[imrannazir]

Egypt is a country the US prefers not to have democracy.

[egyptianmist]

EGYPTIAN watching Egypt from afar with 😟 concern.

[alcubz]

thats not a physic of someone whos under hunger strike for 3 months

[koneko]

What country does have the most political prisoners? The US! Surprise surprise)

[joemarvincentserrano]

10:46 On our radar: Prime Minister of Great Britain, Boris Johnson was resigned from now
12:45 The coup and assassination of Salvador Allende in Chile years from now on

[whocare]

Qatara ruled medea is talking about free speech and human rights ????.

[tkdhanesh]

A society gets the type of rulers it deserves!

[shelbylynnschlund]

We will see if they can buy meat from Italy, buy food from Spain, bread from France, spices from lybia, Bread from Ukraine and russia, SEAFOOD FROM JAPAN, spices from Turkey, BANGLADESH and INDIA.

Egypt stay neutral and for human
rights, and trade/food !

[syedasiad]

Egypt Sisi's leash handed over to foreign master

[MsDboyy]

Egypt has a long history of being one of the most repressive countries 🤦‍♂️

[Canadian]

percentage of Sri lankan debit:
West contries: 47%,
Asian development bank: 13%, Japan: 10%,
China: 10%,
World bank: 9%,
India: 2%,
Others 9%.
All the contries should cut or extend the payback for the debits.
Sri lanka need support from the world. The people need help for food and other basic living.

[ahmadkoodoruth]

You have enjoyed the over throw of Morsi legitimately elected. Now bear what your hands had shaped.

[ssegawaibrahim]

A dictator talking about a national dialog....Just window dressing

[ahamed]

mt fav is al jazeera talking about state media.

[mohamed]

Eng. President Mohamed Mursi is my democratically elected president of Egypt.

[suzannelooms]

Do you really think Alaa will be protected because of British citizenship? Our Home Secretary is busy blocking asylum seekers, including those fleeing the invasion of Ukraine. She plans to send them to Rwanda.