Taylor Westlake
January 30, 2009
10:15 am
On January 27th five Darfur activists were arrested in Cairo. The Sudan Human Rights Organization appealed the fact that the five activists had been arrested. It is said that not only were they arrested for the five days but, that they were also harassed and threatened. The Sudanese Rights Organization that appealed for the safety of the activists was founded in December 1991. They want the Darfur activists to be able to work in the Center and keep up with research and use the computers and the materials they need. But all the computers are materials that were in the Center were taken by the Egyptian officials who arrested the activists. The Center is the Center of Contemporary Studies in Cairo. The Darfur activists are researching information on the Cairo crisis, it is said to be believed that once the Darfur activists are done with their research the mistreatment might end. Another mistreatment and crisis is how the Egyptian officials are mistreating the Sudanese refugees.
This article from the Sudan Tribune let me know what is going on in other countries. I had no idea that there was a Cairo crisis going on, or what the Egyptians had been doing. I believe that the activists should be able to keep up with research and try and figure out the crisis and help end it. The activists were not doing anything wrong. All that they were doing was working on research in the Center which does not give reason to the Egyptians to arrest them, nor does it give them a reason to harass them or to threaten them. I believe that the Organization is doing the right thing by urging the activists to go along with their research at the Center where they should now be safe.
http://sudantribune.com/spip.php?article29996
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