RE: https://mastodon.tn/@nizarus/116193941298945441

"In a statement issued on Friday, the Global Sumud Flottilla reports that "the anti-terrorist police arrested the Tunisian organizers of the Global Sumud Flotilla, Jawaher Channa, Wael Nouar, Sana Mashli, Mohammed Amin Bannour and Nabil Channoufi in Sidi Bou Said. “And to denounce: “their arrest, as well as the repeated bans on legal gatherings, constitute a deeply worrying escalation and mark a disturbing break with Tunisia’s long tradition of public solidarity with the Palestinian people. »

A serious crackdown that comes as on 4 March, a flotilla rally had already been violently suppressed by police. The event, which was to be held in the port of Sidi Bou Said, 20 kilometers from Tunis, was intended to thank the workers of the port, who had helped them during the previous expedition to Gaza. Initially authorized by the Tunisian authorities, he was eventually attacked and dispersed by force, for no apparent reason.

In conclusion of its communiqué, the Global Sumud Flotilla “requests immediate clarifications on the circumstances of these arrests and calls for their prompt release” and notes: “despite these actions, our mission continues. This spring, we will return to the sea to challenge the blockade of Gaza. Amplify. Speak. Stand by their side. #BreakTheSiege #FreePalestine. Since the Permanent Revolution, we have brought them all our solidarity and call for their support."

Oh good! Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been freed from Egyptian prison! https://freealaa.net

Some of his story:

"The persecution of Alaa Abd El Fattah is a recurring theme in Egypt. He was jailed under the Mubarak regime for 45 days and again by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in 2011. He remained in jail for almost two months, missing the birth of his son, Khalid. He also faced trumped up charges designed to intimidate protest under the Morsi government in 2013 along with popular satirist Bassem Youssef.

He was arrested in November 2013, three months after Abdel-Fattah el Sisi's coup d'état and after a trial that lasted over a year, was sentenced to five years imprisonment, charged with the organisation of a protest.

He was released briefly in 2019, then re-arrested.

One of Alaa’s lawyers, Mohamed el-Baqer was arrested by State Security while representing Alaa. El-Baqer was charged in the same case as Alaa - and in December 2021 were both sentenced to five years in prison. When it became clear that there was going to be no way out of Sisi’s prisons, his family began inquiries about him acquiring British citizenship - Alaa’s mother was born in London in 1956.

In 2021 Alaa acquired British citizenship.

During the COP27 Climate Conference, world leaders flew in to Egypt and called for his release, including Rishi Sunak, Olaf Scholz, Emmanuel Macron, Boris Johnson and Jake Sullivan speaking for the White House; the story was covered by media worldwide and extensively inside Egypt... "

Instagram has become a nightmare to try upload and caption videos. I've wasted about 10 hours on this in the past few days.

What video editing app can I use which is not spyware?

Kolektiva admins let a guy from authoritarian CCP join the instance.

Time for me to leave then.

Who you include determines who you exclude.

There's no way he isn't a spy. You're not meant to post content sympathetic of the CCP here, yet a plant is welcomed.

Unbelievably cooked. Fuck this I'm out.

BRUH IT'S QUITE ECOCIDEY OUT THERE.

and my dreams are all nightmares.