EGYPTIAN ACTIVIST ASMAA MAHFOUZ DEPORTED FROM KUWAIT
Mahfouz has also been banned from returning to Kuwait, where she has been residing with her husband for the past three months, according to Al-Ahram reports as quoted by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA).
Mahfouz is a former founding member of the April 6th Youth Movement. In 2011, she was awared the Sakharov Human Rights Award by the EU Parliament for her role in the 25 January revolution.
The reason for her deportation from Kuwait remains unclear.
On August 2011, Egypt’s military prosecutors have charged the prominent activist with insulting the country’s military rulers and calling for armed operations against the military and the judiciary, lawyers said.
Mahfouz was accused of using her Facebook page to call for the assassinations of SCAF members and certain judges, the state-owned Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported.
“If the judiciary doesn’t give us our rights, nobody should be surprised if militant groups appear and conduct a series of assassinations because there is no law and there is no judiciary,” Mahfouz wrote on Facebook, according to MENA.
Mahfouz was released on $3,355 bail after that.
“I am not scared, I will not be silenced, and I will continue to take to the streets and criticise any wrong doing that I see,” he ended up.(T/P03)
Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)
