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Brig, Soren and Reidar-

This is a lesson I have learned only after thinking about evil for many, many years. It is profound. If you expose someone for their fraud and that fraud is AUTHENTIC, they will kill you. What drives a person to violence is not money, land or treasure- as commonly told: but shame.

This 22-year old film maker was killed for making a music video that exposed the Egyptian president, and his bad actions. It is worth watching and deciding whether it is a crime. The president was shamed, mockery. Not threatened with a weapon, or even called out directly. Just made fun of.

Because they could not charge Shady Habash with an actual crime, they tortured him in prison and killed him.

Please think and understand this lesson- people are dangerous when they feel authentic shame. Understand shame in your own emotions too.

love Papa.

Filmmaker who mocked Egypt’s President Sisi dies in prison aged 22

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Issued on: 02/05/2020 – 21:00Modified: 02/05/2020 – 21:00

The entrance to the Tora prison in the Egyptian capital Cairo, pictured in March 2020.
The entrance to the Tora prison in the Egyptian capital Cairo, pictured in March 2020. © Khaled Desouki, AFP

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An Egyptian filmmaker detained without trial for over two years for making a music video that mocked President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi died on Saturday at a maximum-security prison complex, two rights lawyers said.

Attorney Ahmed el-Khwaga said his 22-year-old client Shady Habash died in Cairo’s Tora Prison complex. He said the cause of death was not immediately clear.

There was no immediate comment from the Interior Ministry, which oversees Egypt’s prison system.

Police forces arrested the young filmmaker in March 2018 after he directed a music video by Ramy Essam, an Egyptian musician exiled in Sweden. The video featured a song that mocked the general-turned president, comparing him to a fruit date and condemning alleged government corruption.

Khaled Ali, a rights lawyer, said Habash should have been released two months ago after serving the maximum jail time during pending investigations. 

Galal el-Behairy, who wrote the song performed in the video, was also arrested in 2018 after the video provoked the ire of the government when it went viral on social media with millions of views on YouTube.

El-Behairy was sentenced by an Egyptian military court to three years in prison after his conviction on charges of “insulting security forces” and “disseminating false news.”The Big Pharaoh@TheBigPharaoh · 

Terrible. This am young filmmaker @ShadyHabash died in prison. He was in temporary detention for 2 years without a verdict. He was arrested after he directed an anti-Sisi satirical music video. There were reports his health was deteriorating. Shady died because of a song. #EgyptThe Big Pharaoh@TheBigPharaoh

In October 2019, @ShadyHabash wrote from prison “prison does not kill, but loneliness does. I need your support so I won’t die.” Shady Habash, 22 years old, died this morning in prison. #Egypt

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Following his death, Habash’s friends published a letter he wrote from prison in October in which he spoke of his despair. “Prison doesn’t kill, loneliness does,” he wrote, describing what he called his struggle to “stop yourself from going mad or dying slowly because you’ve been thrown in a room two years ago and forgotten.”

“His psychological state was very bad,” el-Khwaga said of Habash when he saw for the last time two months ago.

Habash’s death again trained a spotlight on the dangers of Egyptian prisons as el-Sissi escalates a crackdown on dissent. Many inmates are serving time for crimes they insist they did not commit, or have not been charged at all. According to rights groups, thousands are held in Egypt’s jails awaiting trial.

The death also comes amid the coronavirus pandemic. Overcrowded prison cells could be breeding grounds for the spread of the virus, which causes the illness COVID-19. Egypt has around 6,200 confirmed cases and over 400 deaths.

Earlier this year, a US citizen who had gone on a hunger strike as part of a six-year battle against what he insisted was wrongful imprisonment, died in prison of heart failure.

Egyptian authorities said at the time they would investigate the death of Mustafa Kassem, 54, an Egyptian-born auto parts dealer from Long Island, New York.

Kassem was in Cairo to visit family in August 2013 when his lawyers say he was mistakenly swept up in a dragnet during the violent dispersal of an Islamist sit-in that killed hundreds of people. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison in a 2018 mass trial of over 700 defendants widely condemned by human rights groups.

(AP)