Al Jazeera Net - Special
Bitter years of separation between her and her detained fiancé, Muhammad Adel, passed her life, but that did not diminish her arm and her hope for the clouds to clear and write the last letters of the book of suffering that lasted for nearly 7 years without any signs of a near breakthrough in light of the preventive detention that she suffered with the arrest of a partner Her expected life is not for nothing except for his political views, which were embodied in a post on the social networking site Facebook.
Like many families of detainees in Egypt, the picture appears bleak and unknown regarding their fate, which is usually not determined except after long months or years. However, what is striking here is that despite these difficult circumstances, the young Rufaidah Hamdi is in the midst of the fog that sour her relationship with a partner Her life in light of his imprisonment, she decided to take a different step to move the stagnant waters in her relationship with her detained fiancé through her decision to perform the marriage in her home in the presence of a limited number of family and friends.
And for those who do not know Mohamed Adel, he is one of the founders of the April 6 Youth Movement (among the vanguard of the youth movements that participated in the January 25 revolution).
He had faced a prison sentence in November 2013 against the background of a demonstration in front of the Abdeen Court, in which he was charged with protesting without a permit and assaulting one of the security personnel in charge of guarding the court to be arrested and sentenced to 3 years imprisonment, a similar probation period, and a fine of 50 thousand pounds.
After his release and entry under police surveillance, he was arrested in connection with a new case last 2018 on charges of misusing social media, spreading false statements and disturbing public peace, after an anonymous report.
It is noteworthy that the decision to release the activist was issued on April 9, by a decision of the Mansoura Criminal Court to guarantee the place of residence, but he was faced with a period of 45 days in pretrial detention after the Public Prosecution appealed the ruling and accepted it on April 9, and only two days after The decision to release the release to be renewed pending the case itself.
According to Rufaida, it is assumed that her husband has exhausted the period of pre-trial detention, but he is still confined to the walls of the prison, as he has not been released or sentenced.
Rufaida says that pretrial detention increases the suffering in light of the lack of clarity of vision.
She noted that the visit was regular for a year and a half, before the authority issued decisions restricting the visit to first-degree relatives, which made the visit to prison impossible.
She continued in an article explaining the motives for marriage, and social media caught him, that this was a motivation for their direction to the decision to marry despite the difficulties they encountered, and despite the obstacles that hindered obtaining the power of attorney for marriage after Adel did a power of attorney to marry his father to complete the matter, hoping that a decision will be made. Releasing him soon, especially after two years and 5 months of arrest.
Mohamed Ashour, a human rights defender and legal expert, says that the human rights issue in Egypt needs to be reviewed in light of the human rights violations that affected thousands of young detainees who were arrested in Egyptian prisons for their political views.
He continued - in statements to Al-Jazeera Net - that the law stipulates that the precautionary detention of the accused may not exceed two years, and that this is in the case of felonies punishable by life imprisonment or execution according to legal amendments made during Adly Mansour's assumption of the presidency temporarily in September / September 2013, but this is not currently being implemented.
He pointed out that if the law is implemented and its provisions are adhered to in terms of revoking pre-trial detention decisions if justifications are available, then there will be a breakthrough for most of the cases of political detainees in Egypt and those detained in connection with issues of opinion and expression, and from the first session of renewal of detention for them, whether with a guarantee of a place of residence or a guarantee Financial or precautionary measures coupled with a travel ban.
For his part, political and human rights activist Kamal Khalil hopes that a similar situation will occur when the late President Anwar Sadat issued orders in 1973 to drop all youth cases in the courts, and then his release and the exit of his friends according to the decisions of release from prisons.
He pointed out - during a post on the social networking site Facebook - that there is an urgent need now to remove many young people from the files of political cases before the courts, and for the general release of all prisoners of conscience and compensation for them financially and morally, the abolition of precautionary measures, and the abolition of all laws restricting freedoms, which include (Laws abolishing the right to demonstrate, laws of pretrial detention, laws of terrorism ... etc.) in addition to opening the public space for freedom of expression.
It is noteworthy that the file of freedoms in Egypt is among the worst files in the region, which makes it facing local and international criticism in light of the high rates of arrests and imprisonment due to political opinions, which is which the authority denies that it justifies the arrests as legitimate and against persons accused of joining associations that it calls terrorism and violating the law.