Ahmed Ramadan - Al-Jazeera Net
As the Egyptian security services tightened their grip just before the days of the 25th of January 2011, the Egyptian revolutionary forces and political movements abroad are preparing to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the revolution through a number of activities in the coming days.
The Egyptian opposition forces in Turkey will organize a protest in front of the headquarters of the Egyptian consulate in Istanbul next Friday evening, followed by a press conference on Saturday morning, as well as organizing a mass conference on Sunday, protests and photo exhibitions in the most important fields of Istanbul over the following days.
Events are scheduled to be held in a number of European Union countries, where the Defense of Democracy Coalition in France is organizing a protest in the capital, Paris, next Friday, to expose what he described as "violations by the regime of detainees in prisons and manifestations of impoverishment and humiliation for all the Egyptian people."
And the Egyptian-German coalition will launch next Saturday similar activities in Frankfurt, and on the same day, the Egyptians in Italy will organize solidarity stops in Milan, and the Egyptian community in Australia has called for demonstrations in Sydney, with the broad participation of the political movement symbols.
The Coordination Council of the Egyptian community in Austria invited its members and all Egyptians to participate in a demonstration next Sunday in the center of the capital Vienna. The Federation of Egyptians in Bosnia sent an invitation to demonstrate next Tuesday, in commemoration of the January revolution.
The Global Coalition of Egyptians Abroad was established at the end of August 2013, and works to coordinate the efforts of Egyptians abroad, with the aim of completing the January 25 revolution and establishing a true democracy.
In the United States, the Egyptian opposition is organizing mass activities in a number of American cities, and activists and human rights activists - most notably Muhammad Sultan and Ayat Hijazi - have started holding meetings with politicians and members of Congress to demand the American administration to press President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to release political detainees and link the aid provided For the Egyptian regime with political reform, and to stop human rights violations
HTC movie
In the same context, the ninth anniversary of the January Revolution witnesses the screening of "HTC" in several cities in the United States, including New York, Washington, Chicago, New Jersey, and Minnesota, as well as Montreal, Canada, and European cities such as Paris, Marseille, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, and Vienna , And Sarajevo, as well as Istanbul and Ankara.
"Al-Hetk" is the first Egyptian movie to express the pain of the Arab Spring and the Egyptian revolution after the military coup in the summer of 2013, the overthrow of the first elected civilian president, Mohamed Morsi, and the tragic events that followed, and the role of the security services in fabricating issues for political opponents.
National Working Group
For its part, the Egyptian National Action Group valued all the calls for the popular movement throughout the days of the anniversary of the revolution, starting from January 25 to the memory of the departure of former President Hosni Mubarak on February 11, confirming its support for the upcoming movement to be the beginning of a new stage that extends until the departure of Sisi and his regime.
In a statement, the group condemned the Egyptian regime's closure of squares, blocking roads and streets, arresting activists, mobilizing fake and paid demonstrations, distorting government media to opponents, and applauding the dictator, noting that all this does not mean accepting or accepting a regime that has lost its legitimacy, and its continuation.
The group called "the free world, and all its parliaments, to protect the rights of peaceful demonstrators and protesters to express their position without compromising their freedom, and to press for the speedy release of tens of thousands of political detainees."
For his part, Ayman Nour, the spokesperson for the Egyptian National Action Group, stressed that the launch of that group to represent most of the political and national forces and public figures inside and outside Egypt was only in response to the state of consensus, and "in response to the entitlement to the necessary coordination between the vanguards of the national group, which represents the conscience of the nation And embody the aspirations of its people for change and salvation, to enjoy the life of its pillar of justice and freedom and respect for rights and freedoms. "
And opposition Egyptian figures abroad announced the end of last month the inauguration of the "Egyptian National Action Group", which includes a group of politicians inside and outside Egypt, from all political spectrums.