CAIRO -
Egyptian media and activists demanded that the fate of Egyptian journalist Safaa Al-Korbiji be disclosed after widespread news of her arrest by the police, following a series of videos opposing the authority.
According to activists and media professionals, the Egyptian authorities arrested Al-Korbiji at dawn last Wednesday, while the Egyptian broadcaster Hala Fahmy escaped from arrest by chance because she was not at her home during the raid by the authorities.
And the last period witnessed a wide spread of video clips in which the two media figures sharply criticized the leaders of the Maspero building, where the state radio and television stations are located in Egypt, especially with regard to the delay in financial dues to workers, then the criticism spread to the Egyptian authorities, warning against the General Intelligence Service’s attempt to control the Maspero building. Which is the heart of the government media, before Al-Korbiji began during the past days to expand its criticism circle to include the economic and political conditions, and called on citizens to take to the streets on the morning of Eid.
Al-Korbiji used the language of need in criticizing the "general living crises experienced by citizens", and her "hot and sarcastic" method sometimes attracted the attention of thousands of followers, especially after she recently addressed criticism of allowing the Israelis to hold celebrations in Sinai coinciding with the anniversary of the tenth of Ramadan. The deterioration of the economy on the government, stressing that it is only a "secretariat."
“Who is hell, we must stand up to preserve Egypt,”
the announcer’s cry on “Egyptian TV” # Hala_Fahmy in front of Maspero# More# Anger_of_the_ghlaba_coming_for_hisl_pic.twitter.com/W0X9nKHCUz
— Mazid - Mazid (@MazidNews) March 13, 2022
The Corbigian hashtag tops Twitter
The "Safaa Al-Korbiji" hashtag was trending on Twitter in Egypt, and most of the participants in it expressed their anger at her arrest, and they demanded her release.
Some also expressed their grief over the circulating news that the Egyptian press security forces had "dragged" on the stairs of her house during her arrest, and not taking into account the fact that she is a person with special needs (with a movement disability).
A number of participants in the tag confirmed that the reason for the arrest of Al-Kornaji was the video clip in which she attacked the Egyptian Minister of Awqaf, Mukhtar Gomaa, and demanded that the Egyptian people go to the streets at the time of the Eid prayer and the takbeer to rid Egypt of the "Satan".
A number of tweeters participated in the "Eid Revolution" hashtag in support of the Egyptian journalist, and in response to her invitation, which may have been the reason for her arrest.
The incident of Safaa al-Korbeji's descent on the stairs, because she was sitting on the stairs, because she was sitting more than the
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What is left of you pic.twitter.com/F1lIIuN9Ej
— Ghada Najib (@Ghadanajeb) April 22, 2022
From the hour of her arrest, I can't stand myself.
I swear to God Almighty, I have not broken the fast nor do I have a soul to do anything other than check on it.
# Safaa_al-Korbiji #Eid_Revolution #Withdrawal_of_confidence_from_Sisi pic.twitter.com/xVi9gO7F5J
— MOHAMED💪ABDELRAHMAN👈 (@mohamed041979) April 22, 2022
Challenging the decisions of the criminal authority from the types of #civil_disobedience
The opportunity for Eid is to prove that the people are alive, to take the family to prayer, and to convince everyone around us;
We are solace with one another and protect one another;
And let's make #Eid_revolution:
- We respond and support the call of #Safaa_Al -Korbeji
- We resist the crime of the Minister of Endowments #Sisi - We
cooperate in preparing for prayer #Mosques_Revolution
— Mahmoud Fathy (@MMFathy01) April 22, 2022
The being without features is this #Safa_al-Korbegi wants the bayonets of Egypt, which are the Banna sheep, and the sheep who are familiar with it are trending, real idiots, sheep who have no equal, and there will be new hope for them after they have failed 😂😂😂 and after the faith of the sea is Varnish 😂 pic.twitter .com/0NrwcWUXcJ
— Shaima Allam - Shaima Allam (@ShaimaAllam1) April 22, 2022
Searching for a corbi
And Egyptian media quoted Ali Ayoub, Safaa Al-Korbiji's lawyer, as saying that a security force arrested her at dawn last Wednesday from her home and took her to an unknown destination.
Ayoub said in his statements to "Darb" website, and on his personal Facebook page, that upon his return to Cairo, he will ask about Al-Korbiji in the Supreme State Security Prosecution, and file an urgent lawsuit against the Minister of Interior in his capacity and the Public Prosecutor in his capacity to reveal the place of her detention and to know the charges against her.
For his part, Mahmoud Kamel, a member of the Journalists Syndicate, said that he tried to contact Al-Korbiji by phone after receiving the news of her arrest, but her phone was switched off.
Kamel made it clear that the Syndicate is trying to find out its fate, and that he contacted the Journalists Syndicate as soon as he learned the news last Thursday, according to the same website.
ending service
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Radio and Television Magazine, Khaled Hanafi, had issued a decision last month to terminate the service of Al-Korbiji - the magazine’s editorial secretary - on the grounds that she had stopped working without permission or an acceptable excuse, starting from the first of January 2022 until the sixth of March of the same year. .
According to the Egyptian Observatory for Press and Media, the Egyptian journalist filed a grievance with the Council of Journalists Syndicate against the decision, and confirmed in her grievance that the decision is invalid for several reasons, including that she was not warned after her absence from work for more than 7 days, and she was also not warned after the completion of a period of 15 days. connected in accordance with the law.
The Egyptian journalist said that she is still working at the magazine, and has been sending her assignments via the magazine's official email continuously for more than 5 years, because she is a "people of determination" journalist and applies to the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Law No. 10 of 2018, which states that: The worker may perform the work remotely.
Egypt is witnessing - during the current period - a rise in the rate of anger in the Egyptian street under the weight of a severe economic crisis, which caused a significant increase in the prices of various commodities, which the Egyptian authorities apparently decided to confront firmly.
In contrast to Al-Korbiji, the Egyptian authorities arrested 3 people from the satirical “Golden El Ghalaba” page, which provides satirical videos through the “Tik Tok” application, according to human rights pages and websites on social media, and the State Security Prosecution charged them with spreading false news.
The three - who work in guarding real estate - set up a channel on the Tik Tok application with a fourth person, called "The Good People", through which they broadcast satirical videos, some of them about the high prices, which garnered millions of views.
The Egyptian security forces arrested 3 content makers on the satirical page #Happy_Al-Ghalabah, which presents satirical videos of the crazy price hike on Tik Tok, and the State Security Prosecution charged them with publishing false news for criticizing the high prices in satirical clips.
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— DAWN Egypt (@DAWN__EGYPT) April 21, 2022
The Public Prosecution ordered the detention of the #guys_of_the_ghellaba for 15 days pending investigation on the accusation of publishing false news to spare them the wave of high prices.
Does the colleague, the deputy attorney general, the source of the detention order know that the head of state himself also spoke about the high prices and was not brought to trial on the same charge pic.twitter.com/B0HS3jHVeA pic.twitter.com/B0HS3jHVeA
— Ahmed Atalla (@avou_cato) April 21, 2022
The arrest of #cute_of_the_ghellaba after the video of prices , by
God, the video is really cute 😂 pic.twitter.com/pkxW3NWaJi
— Mena Gouhar (@mgouhar) April 21, 2022