So the latest is that they are now letting political prisoners out again … Kamal Shaykho, Fayes Sara, Hassan Azm, Hazem Nahar, George Sabra are supposedly out now after a month in jail …
All of them are, by the way, non-violent political activists who’ve done a million times more than me for building democracy and opposing this regime …
But it makes me wonder: are we back to the catch and release game of last month?
Does it mean that they are going to relax the crackdown?
I heard gunfire again today … so I don’t know.
It may just mean that yet again the regime’s left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, let alone what the gripping hand is up to …
There are something like 17 different secret police formations here. They don’t always coordinate. They have different leaders, different policies, different aims. The ‘joke’ is that after you get questioned by one, the next one will pick you up to find out what the other one knew …
So maybe one group is catching and another releasing?
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Amina - Your blog is excellent! I think all 17 hands of the regime know exactly what they are doing: brutal and complete repression until nobody dares to challenge the regime again. They want to re-build the war of fear even higher and thicker than it was before! I am afraid they seem to be gradually succeeding. This is so depressing! I hope you disagree.
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