Shimaa Adel
An Egyptian journalist was detained in Sudan, where she was covering the
latest protests in the capital.
On 4 July, shimaa had been arrested by Sudanese police forces when she
was sitting in an internet café in Khartoum, with Sudanese political
activists; in addition she wasn't holding any official papers for press
covering.
On 5 July the Arabic-language independent daily Al-Watan newspaper, for
which shimaa works, said that she would arrive home next day at 9:30pm,
but she didn't show up though.
Next day, her family phoned the egyptian consul and the ambassador
there, and they told them that security was about to release her,
advising me not to speak to the media for her safety, and the surprise
was when they told her that they hadn't met shimaa, as she'd been
arrested but Sudanese intelligence.
Family, friends, and political activists started to organize a lot of
protests at the press syndicate, Sudanese embassy in Cairo, and at the
ministry of foreign affairs demanding her immediate release, but still
shimaa didn't return.
Her mother announced her hunger strike yesterday night till her daughter
will be back, and after a lot of promises from governmental officials,
she hanged up her strike for just 24 hours.
Shimaa, 25 years old, who covered the egyptian and Libyan revolutions,
went to Syria where she covered the massacres and sustained a leg
injury, is the second egyptian journalist to have been arrested in
Sudan.
But the first one, also a woman her name is Salma Alwardani, was
released on the same day that she was arrested.
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