Director of films cartoon and cartoonist Ashraf Hamdy was arrested this morning of Monday, January 25, 2021 after he published on his page ‘Egyptoon‘a video of the anniversary of the revolution which began on January 25, 2011 and ended the dictatorship de Hosni Mubarak.
Hamdy himself had time to write on his Facebook page: ” arresting“but so far his arrest has not been officially confirmed by the authorities.
For its part, ONG Arab Network for Human Rights Information (Anhri) criticized the arrest that coincides with the tenth anniversary from revolution January 25, National Day of the Policeman in Egypt and that in 2011 marked the beginning of protests against the Mubarak regime.
According to Anhri, “the Police refuse to let the anniversary of the revolution go by without a impact negative and new evidences that the “brutal police method continues that thousands of people they denounced on the streets a decade ago, giving way to a revolt popular with political, social and economic demands.
In the video, the cartoonist portrays a protester in the middle of two police vans who affirms: “I am the voice in the middle of silence from all over the world, who was against injustice, the corruption and the oppression. I’m the one who smiled when he was shot and my blood spilled onto the asphalt. “
Your channel YouTube ‘Egyptoon’ has about two million viewers.
Anhri noted in her statement that Hamdy previously worked as cartoonist in the magazine State Sabah al Jeir and on the Masrawy website, where he published animation videos of social criticism starring the famous character ‘crazy Eimon’.
In addition, he stressed that the cartoonist has not been politically involved in any match O group.
Dozens of people, from journalists even ordinary citizens, have been arrested in the past months for publishing content critical of the Government of presidente Abdelfatah al Side in the networks or simply for expressing opinions and disseminating material considered “immoral.”
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