Ɖ Gardịn vy on Ījipt’s abysz: justis nīdd fr Alā Abdŭl Fatá – n ɖ uɖrz
(Transcription of a Guardian editorial of 8 Nov. 2022)
Ɖ trītmnt v ɖ Britiś-Ijipśn dmocṛsi acṭvist z a traṿsti, n embḷmatic v ɖ reźīm’z brūtaḷti
Tyzde 8 Nvmbr 2022
Onli ɖ Ijipśn reźīm nz ɖ fet v Alā Abdŭl Fatá. It wonts t cīp it ɖt we. Ɖ jeld Britiś-Ijipśn raitr n dmocṛsi acṭvist, a figrhed v ɖ 2011 reṿluśn, bgan rfyzñ wōtr on Súnde – six munʈs aftr lōnćñ a hungrstrîc ɖt hz sìn him cnsym no mor ɖn 100 caḷriz a de. On Munde, hiz muɖr wêtd in ven ǎtsd ɖ prizn fr hiz wīcli letr. Az v Tyzde īvnñ, hiz faṃli wz stl dmandñ prūf v lîf, firñ h me dî bfr ɖ end v ɖ Cop27 clîṃtsumit in Śarm el-Śeic, ẃć hz fîṇli pṛpeld hiz ces t inṭnaśnl atnśn. Ɖe r olso cnsrnd ɖt h me b torćrd ʈru forsfīdñ.
Ɖ Britiś guvnmnt apirz t hv at last acordd ɖ ces ɖ importns it dzrvz. Raitñ t ɖ 40-yir-old faɖr’z faṃli at ɖ wīcend, Riśi Sūnac sd ɖt h wz “toṭli cmitd” t rzolvñ ɖ ces, cōlñ it a prîoṛti. Ɖ prîm̦inistr sd ɖt h wd stres ɖ nīd fr a swift reẓluśn t ɖ Ijipśn prezidnt.
It z an ǎtrej ɖt Abdŭl Fatá wz jeld at ol; ɖt h hz spent most v ɖ last deced in prizn; ɖt h wz sntnst t anɖr fîv yirz fr śẹrñ a sośl-mīdia post abt torćr; n ɖt h z dnaid consylr vizits – ɖ trigr fr hiz hungrstrîc. Hiz riyl ofns z t b an insṗreśnl figr t uɖr Ijipśnz.
Hiz ces z olso embḷmatic v ɖ reźīm’z brūtaḷti n injustis. Prezidnt Abdŭl Fatá al-Sīsi, ɖen dfnsministr, sizd pǎr in a militri cù in 2013 n hz huñ on t it ʈru rigd ilex́nz n an īqli unfer reḟrendm on consttyśnl ćenjz. Ʈǎzndz mor p’liticl priznrz r incarṣretd. Abdŭl Fatá’z adiśnl sntns cem in a wev v cesz in speśl imrjnsicorts last yir. X’kśnz olso rouz in 2021.
Ɖ reźīm śoz litl rgard fr īvn hî-profîl priznrz – ɖ formr prezidnt Mhamid Morsi, v ɖ Mŭzlim Bruɖrhd, daid on ɖ flor v ɖ cortrūm ẃl on trîl in 2019. Nr cn foṛn naṣ́nlz xpct līńnsi. Wstn guvnmnts yẓ́li swolo ɖer cnsrnz dy t ɖ unsīmli scrambl fr dīlz (Britn z Ījipt’s larjist prîṿt biznispartnr) n ɖ msplest b’lif ɖt it z a bŭlẉc v stbiḷti in ɖ rījn.
Ẃt Ījipt dz cer abt z its steṭs n trayñ t rclem an er v rspctbiḷti. Ɖt z ẃ it z hostñ Cop27. Mr Sūnac rezd Abdŭl Fatá’z ces wɖ ɖ prezidnt, bt dz nt apir t hv xactd ɖ prîs fr ɖer mītñ in advans. Ɖ denjr z nt onli ɖt Mr Sīsi dz nt tec a dstractd Britiś guvnmnt sirịsli, bt ɖt Mr Sūnac gev awe tù mć tù qcli. Ɖ formr Britiś ambasdr t Ījipt Jon Casn pt it clirli: “F w cīp gvñ ɖm ẃt ɖe wont fr nʈñ, ɖe wl sit bac n asc fr mor.”
Ɖ guvnmnt mst nǎ liv p t its promis t Abdŭl Fatá’z faṃli bî aplayñ maximm preśr bî ol mīnz, includñ ʈru militri n intelijns ćanlz, mcñ it clir ɖt a fełr t grant axes wl cost Ījipt dirli in ci aspects v ɖ rleśnśp. It śd olso xtnd its cnsrn t ɖ mni mor p’liticl priznrz nǎ suḟrñ.
