Mona Seif
@Monasosh · Gulf & Arab world
Mona Seif is an Egyptian activist.
Abdel Rahman Yusuf is free. May God compensate him for all the injustice and abuse, and may all detainees be free.
Translated from ArabicI’m trying to think of something to say to you on your birthday, and I don’t know how to get past the anger, but I also need to tell you that, even as my anger and hatred toward them grow, my love for you in my heart grows every day. May God give you strength, and may you always be able to remain as you are—free in yourself, and making your own decisions with your mind (and your heart)—even if that makes those who rule us grow increasingly vicious toward you. The powerless and the blindly obedient will never understand people like you. I’m sending you lots of love and wishes, and I pray that this will be the last birthday you are forced to spend in their prisons. #الحرية_لأحمد_دومة
Translated from Arabic (Egypt)Seeing boys and girls standing on the sidewalk on the other side of their school, looking very chill, reminded me of the Orman days. We had a school that would walk around calling out to the girls with a megaphone in the street and chase after them at Taza, the sandwich place. Honestly, Egypt, we have truly seen all kinds of absurdity in your schools.
Translated from Arabic (Egypt)On the first anniversary of Dad’s death, may no one from our family be in your prisons, Egypt. But we still have many loved ones in your custody and so many families hoping for an end to this pain. #مع_سيف #الحرية_للمعتقلين
Translated from ArabicOf course, one day the people responsible for the massacres, torture, disappearances, and open-ended arrests that took place over the past 15 years in Egypt will be held accountable .. Of course, one day every person currently in office who thinks they have escaped any accountability, who believes they are stronger than any measure of justice and that their vision matters more than our testimony and memory, will be tried and stand alone, stripped of any protection, before the families of all their victims (and those who remain of their victims), afraid for their safety, while we will try to hold on to our hearts and our compass and insist on truth and justice despite all the fire .. right? There is something terrifying about having lived through this bloody nightmare: massacres, morgues, and prisons, while all the major criminals—in the whole world, not just Egypt—keep abusing people as if they were immune forever
Translated from ArabicMay God make the memory easier for everyone who lived through it, everyone who lost loved ones in it, and everyone who was in Egypt at the time, trapped in the nightmare—even those who think they were not affected. #مذبحة_رابعة left its mark on every human being. #عظم_شهيدك and #الحرية_للمعتقلين
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