Journalist Released in Egypt After 1400 Days

[Insaanistan]

Aljazeera Arabic journalist Mahmoud Hussein released after over four years in prison in Egypt. Interrogated without a lawyer, he was kept much longer than anyone in Egypt is allowed to be kept detained without trial. Hussein was no activist: simply a journalist under Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi’s Egypt. It is believed part of the reason he was released was the change in the administration the US. Like Trump, al-Sisi views the press as a threat. However, Biden has taken a much harsher stance. Hussein became a symbol of the plight of journalists worldwide.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/6 ... l-in-egypt
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/ ... in-who-was

[Echo Chamber Thought Police]

fuckin finally

[Zohiania]

I'm glad he was released but I haven't seen any evidence that Joe Biden's Administration had any relevance to his release.

[The Jamesian Republic]

Aljazeera Arabic journalist Mahmoud Hussein released after over four years in prison in Egypt. Interrogated without a lawyer, he was kept much longer than anyone in Egypt is allowed to be kept detained without trial. Hussein was no activist: simply a journalist under Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi’s Egypt. It is believed part of the reason he was released was the change in the administration the US. Like Trump, al-Sisi views the press as a threat. However, Biden has taken a much harsher stance. Hussein became a symbol of the plight of journalists worldwide.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/6 ... l-in-egypt
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/ ... in-who-was

That’s great. Hopefully more people like him will be freed. I too hope to be a reporter. It is also my hope more oppressive governments are toppled and maybe people can finally be happy in countries like Egypt and around the Middle East.

[The Marlborough]

I wonder if he promised to pose as one of el-Sisi's police cadets to secure his freedom.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Awesome stuff.

[Insaanistan]

I'm glad he was released but I haven't seen any evidence that Joe Biden's Administration had any relevance to his release.

I was watching Aljazeera when I heard and some political analyst or something said so.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

I really don't wanna visit Egypt. On my list of places in the middle east that I wanna go to, it's above Yemen but definitely below much of the Levant as well as Algeria and Morocco and Tunisia. Egypt has so many issues with government oppression, Islamic terrorism and riots that it isnt even funny. I'm glad this journalist got out of there, and I would advise journalists from anywhere else to be very careful in Egypt or to avoid it altogether.

[Insaanistan]

I really don't wanna visit Egypt. On my list of places in the middle east that I wanna go to, it's above Yemen but definitely below much of the Levant as well as Algeria and Morocco and Tunisia. Egypt has so many issues with government oppression, Islamic terrorism and riots that it isnt even funny. I'm glad this journalist got out of there, and I would advise journalists from anywhere else to be very careful in Egypt or to avoid it altogether.

When I was younger, my dad wanted me to go to high school for a short time in three possible places
A. Britain (we have family there and they have good schools)
B. Nigeria (we have family there and they have a few good schools)
C. Egypt (I mean, there might be family we don’t know there, but it was so my Arabic would be better and I could go to a good school.)

Yeah... Egypt and Nigeria ideas have been scrapped for a while now.

[Kexholm Karelia]

I really don't wanna visit Egypt. On my list of places in the middle east that I wanna go to, it's above Yemen but definitely below much of the Levant as well as Algeria and Morocco and Tunisia. Egypt has so many issues with government oppression, Islamic terrorism and riots that it isnt even funny. I'm glad this journalist got out of there, and I would advise journalists from anywhere else to be very careful in Egypt or to avoid it altogether.

Funnily enough even Syria (part controlled by Assad) is freer than Egypt nowadays, and were talking about a country thats been in civil war for a decade

[Insaanistan]

I really don't wanna visit Egypt. On my list of places in the middle east that I wanna go to, it's above Yemen but definitely below much of the Levant as well as Algeria and Morocco and Tunisia. Egypt has so many issues with government oppression, Islamic terrorism and riots that it isnt even funny. I'm glad this journalist got out of there, and I would advise journalists from anywhere else to be very careful in Egypt or to avoid it altogether.

Funnily enough even Syria (part controlled by Assad) is freer than Egypt nowadays, and were talking about a country thats been in civil war for a decade

Egypt overthrew a dictator for an even worse one.
Kinda like Iran.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

I really don't wanna visit Egypt. On my list of places in the middle east that I wanna go to, it's above Yemen but definitely below much of the Levant as well as Algeria and Morocco and Tunisia. Egypt has so many issues with government oppression, Islamic terrorism and riots that it isnt even funny. I'm glad this journalist got out of there, and I would advise journalists from anywhere else to be very careful in Egypt or to avoid it altogether.

Funnily enough even Syria (part controlled by Assad) is freer than Egypt nowadays, and were talking about a country thats been in civil war for a decade

I would visit Assad controlled Syria or Rojava. I won't step foot in Egypt now.

[Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana]

I really don't wanna visit Egypt. On my list of places in the middle east that I wanna go to, it's above Yemen but definitely below much of the Levant as well as Algeria and Morocco and Tunisia. Egypt has so many issues with government oppression, Islamic terrorism and riots that it isnt even funny. I'm glad this journalist got out of there, and I would advise journalists from anywhere else to be very careful in Egypt or to avoid it altogether.

Funnily enough even Syria (part controlled by Assad) is freer than Egypt nowadays, and were talking about a country thats been in civil war for a decade

The Levant has always been a bastion of religious tolerance, simply due to the amount of religious diversity in the region that’s been there for centuries. Syria is definitely not free in terms of political rights and such, but that’s natural and justified imo because there is a civil war against the government going on. However, in terms of religious freedoms, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan stand out in the Middle East

[Echo Chamber Thought Police]

Funnily enough even Syria (part controlled by Assad) is freer than Egypt nowadays, and were talking about a country thats been in civil war for a decade

Egypt overthrew a dictator for an even worse one.
Kinda like Iran.

or for a more western example, cuba

[Kexholm Karelia]

Funnily enough even Syria (part controlled by Assad) is freer than Egypt nowadays, and were talking about a country thats been in civil war for a decade

The Levant has always been a bastion of religious tolerance, simply due to the amount of religious diversity in the region that’s been there for centuries. Syria is definitely not free in terms of political rights and such, but that’s natural and justified imo because there is a civil war against the government going on. However, in terms of religious freedoms, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan stand out in the Middle East

Doesn’t Lebanon have a lot of stuff with Hezbollah going on?

[Insaanistan]

The Levant has always been a bastion of religious tolerance, simply due to the amount of religious diversity in the region that’s been there for centuries. Syria is definitely not free in terms of political rights and such, but that’s natural and justified imo because there is a civil war against the government going on. However, in terms of religious freedoms, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan stand out in the Middle East

Doesn’t Lebanon have a lot of stuff with Hezbollah going on?

Yeah, but it’s not like Christians there feel like Christians in DAESH territory.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

The Levant has always been a bastion of religious tolerance, simply due to the amount of religious diversity in the region that’s been there for centuries. Syria is definitely not free in terms of political rights and such, but that’s natural and justified imo because there is a civil war against the government going on. However, in terms of religious freedoms, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan stand out in the Middle East

Doesn’t Lebanon have a lot of stuff with Hezbollah going on?

Hezbollah isn't anti Christian. They have many christian allies within Lebanon, although they are antisemitic.

Tbh Hezbollah is a lot like the Aryan Brotherhood in the sense that whatever ideology was there before is basically gone now. Hezbollah is a gang more than a terrorist group, and has spent the last several years robbing Lebanon and corrupting systems of power.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

POV you're going to Egypt as a journalist: https://youtu.be/jE--tfdZ3-8

[Insaanistan]

Doesn’t Lebanon have a lot of stuff with Hezbollah going on?

Hezbollah isn't anti Christian. They have many christian allies within Lebanon, although they are antisemitic.

Tbh Hezbollah is a lot like the Aryan Brotherhood in the sense that whatever ideology was there before is basically gone now. Hezbollah is a gang more than a terrorist group, and has spent the last several years robbing Lebanon and corrupting systems of power.

A radical extremist gang, to be sure.
Hizballah basically forgot the “Allah” part of their name since their very start and has just been screwing Lebanon over.

[Assyrian Anatolia]

Doesn’t Lebanon have a lot of stuff with Hezbollah going on?

Hezbollah isn't anti Christian. They have many christian allies within Lebanon, although they are antisemitic.

Tbh Hezbollah is a lot like the Aryan Brotherhood in the sense that whatever ideology was there before is basically gone now. Hezbollah is a gang more than a terrorist group, and has spent the last several years robbing Lebanon and corrupting systems of power.

For me, Hezbollah doesnt count as a terrorist organisation. They are a small gang of smart people who like to be bad. Like the ones we see in fast and furious. Hezbollah's main enemy is Israel. Believe it or not, their fights with Israel is more impressive than all the major powers in the Mid East could do.

[Echo Chamber Thought Police]

POV you're going to Egypt as a journalist: https://youtu.be/jE--tfdZ3-8

you didnt show the part where they get hanged

[Borderlands of Rojava]

POV you're going to Egypt as a journalist: https://youtu.be/jE--tfdZ3-8

you didnt show the part where they get hanged

There's children here tho.

[Insaanistan]

you didnt show the part where they get hanged

There's children here tho.

Yeah, I’m 14 still.

[Chan Island]

Good. The man should never have been jailed in the first place.

[No State Here]

Egypt has changed a lot…

I guess it’s like Syria, where the ruling government, for all its faults, wasn’t a radical Wahhabist Saudi plant