Syrian Refugees

The refugees and Syrian regime
In the last year ended up in Egyptian prisons and five hundred thousand Syrian refugees and Syrian-Palestinians. Since last July, the reports of humanitarian organizations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, to cite the most authoritative, denounce the abuse, in and out of prisons, of which they are victims Syrian refugees in Cairo. Who has not been caught in the cauldron of Islamist repression, was taken on the boats illegal immigrants intercepted by the Coast Guard. Once finished in the slammer, the Syrians are confronted with a choice that leaves no way out: stay inside without term, sign documents for their own deportation to Syria, or find the money to pay for a trip to Lebanon or Turkey. Faced with the same blind alley are hundreds of Syrians still on the loose, that after being welcomed into Egypt during the presidency of Morsi, since the military regained power were denied the renewal of the residence permit. For the more desperate the distance is short. Who has the last name on the black list of the Assad regime, he fears reprisals from Hezbollah in Lebanon, or do not have the money to start a life in Turkey is the last desperate attempt to reach Italy on a boat illegally. I hope trips causing dozens of casualties.
Dying in the sea
"I just want to be free, with what remains of my girls," says Wafa. "If we were sent back to Syria, our lives would be in danger." Next to her Sham four years, and Khadeja, a year and a half, chasing each other in the corridors of the prison inmates Karmouz with other children. In the bright eyes in a tired voice, the memory of the other two girls, 5 years old and Hekmat Shams 3 drowned the night of October 11 in the sinking of a barge sank seven kilometers from the coast of Egypt. From the day after, for eighty-four days Wafa was detained in the police station of Karmouz on the outskirts of Alexandria. In Egypt, the detention of Syrian refugees, including women and children, in filthy cells and suffocating, it is the practice that has been going on for some time. Without Mahienour to the Syrians that remains is the abyss.
A people without rights
A week ago a court in Alexandria imposed two years of jail and a fine of fifty thousand Egyptian pounds (five thousand Euros) in a group of Egyptian activists for human rights. Yet another case, after the marshal on the ground at the Sissi took power, that one of the most uncomfortable to the system ends up in jail. Activists and journalists who raise their heads against the military end up in the crosshairs of the judiciary, as in the days of Mubarak. Among the prisoners there is also Mahienour El Massri, a lawyer, one of the most famous female faces of the revolt of 2011. "The revolutionary butterfly", as they call it, the Mahienour sweet, well prepared and tireless. In the last year she has been with a high group of brave, who denounced the inhumane conditions of detainees Syrians. Assisted them in the courts, tried them in prison, bringing their tragic stories, asking the government to release them from detention.