Dit schreef ik vannacht:
Ik krijg net een telefoontje - om half 3 in de nacht van zondag op maandag - dat de geheime politie op dit moment het huis van vrienden van ons, Maged en Judith Rizk, doorzoekt. Hun zoon Philip is eerder deze week opgepakt en wordt op een onbekende plaats vastgehouden. Egypt: een 'gematigd' moslimland?
Dit is wat ik als verslag kreeg van Judith Rizk:
At 1:30am when we had just gone to bed the doorbell rang. 5 plain clothed men and two in full riot gear and machine guns stood outside our door. They wanted to enter to search the house. We found out that they were looking for evidence against Philip. Two men entered and began searching through the papers of our home office. In the meantime we contacted a German Embassy official and a professor from AUC as well as some friends. They all came immediately many others were awake and praying.
The police left but returned soon after to ask my father to go with them and write up a report about the fact that they had searched our home. Of course, we did not trust them. Then they also insisted to pass by his office where they would continue the search. In the meantime Amnesty International had contacted us and an wonderful lawyer arrived just in time to firmly tell the secret police that they could not take any further actions without a police warrant. We closed and locked the front door and settled in to see what would happen next. The secret police was waiting downstairs for orders that never came. At 5 a.m. they finally left.
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