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IBRAHIM HALAWA, THE Dublin teenager who has been imprisoned in Egypt for more than two years under the shadow of a possible death penalty, has spoken out regarding the circumstances of his imprisonment.
In a letter to his family, Ibrahim (19) describes the ‘experimental torture’ carried out in the jail in which he’s imprisoned.
This torture, according to a caseworker from Reprieve (a human rights organisation) who recently met with Halawa, includes prisoners being strapped naked in crucifix positions in the prison halls, and water electrocution, while Ibrahim himself has been subject to repeat beatings with rubber bars.
In the letter Ibrahim bemoans the corruption of the Egyptian judicial system, and says that being part of a mass trial as he has repeatedly been will never grant him his freedom.
Instead, he says he is merely “waiting in a queue for my turn on a death rope”.
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The letter also serves to confirm that Ibrahim is currently on hunger strike, and has been so for at least 20 days.
A statement from Reprieve claims that Ibrahim’s health is failing as a combination result of his hunger strike and the poor conditions in which he is imprisoned.
Halawa has been detained in Egypt for the past 28 months, along with 493 other prisoners.
His detention happened in the aftermath of Egyptian president Abdul Fattah el-Sisi seizing power in July 2013 amid a crackdown on protests.
Just last month Halawa’s mass trial in Cairo was postponed once more as two of his 419 co-defendants were not well enough to stand trial.
That was the ninth time he had been brought to trial only for the action to be suspended.
The next such trial is scheduled to take place on 15 December.
This week South Dublin County Council unanimously passed a motion calling on the Taoiseach to call for the release of Ibrahim.
During Sisi’s recent visit to the UK Ibrahim’s family called on David Cameron to raise his case in their discussions, though the prime minister did not confirm whether or not this had actually happened.
The full text of Ibrahim’s letter to his family is below:
I write with a ticking clock closer to my death. For the past two years and three months I have been imprisoned unjustly. I’m waiting in a queue for my turn on the death rope. My only crime is being innocent. I have waited for the Egyptian government to prove otherwise but clearly hasn’t.
There are many laws to prove my right to be released or handed back to my country but the judicial system in Egypt is very corrupt. Being in a mass trial will never grant me my freedom. I have been thrown in a place that is in no way humanitarian to live in. The very same place a lot suffer. In Egypt no-one hears their cry. This is the place where experimental torture is practiced. This the place once you’re in there is no out.
Words will never do justice to what happens in Egyptian prisons. Now that I have finished my arrest period as a defendant and have given the judicial system in Egypt the full time to prove I am guilty, I protest for my freedom by going on a hunger strike since 21 October 2015. I have now been on a hunger strike for 20 days and it will continue until I am released. I will continue regardless of my bad health conditions. Because in Egypt you must pay your life in order to be released.
I will not be protesting for better conditions but to be released. I really want to thank everyone who has supported me because it is your help that will get me released. I do not believe in the Egyptian judicial system but I believe in hope and my hope is to make it back home one day. Alive.
Ibrahim Halawa, Prison 440.
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Oh God, this poor unfortunate paddy. A classic case of the Irish abroad getting caught up with the Muslim Brotherhood. One minute you’re taking a photo of the majestic pyramids of Giza the next your in the middle of a Muslim Brotherhood march calling for Sharia law and blood. this is happening all to often these days.
He was attending a family wedding don’t you know…
“in the middle of a Muslim Brotherhood march calling for Sharia law and blood.”
He wasn’t in a march calling for Sharia Law and blood. You’re an idiot, but that’s ok, all racists are.
You’re right Eamonn…he was actually on stage, along with his sisters.
Christ, Eamonn. You’re some moron.
Eamonn for f**k sake man – educate yourself
… While on holiday don’t forget.
This fella is getting way too much attention and media! He’s just like every other person in that prison that was locked up for the same reason. Lets not play the pit card just because he once had an Irish passport. He made his bed, let him lie in it.
The thing is that if he is released and returns to Ireland from a brutal, backwards regime,he will want to turn our progressive society into a backwards, savage society.
Given that this is the second time he has claimed to be on hunger strike to the death you’ll have to excuse me for failing to believe a word of this. Or anything else from this family for that matter.
Look, lets call a spade a spade here, they’re obviously getting so desperate that they’re reusing a perviously used lie. We’ve also heard tall tales of torture that, when investigated by Irish embassy officials, turned out to be baseless. It’s a fact that every bogus claim made by this family has been investigated and discredited by Irish officials, yet they persist in lying.
The only truth is that he, and he alone, is responsible for being where he currently is. His family have a long and strong association with the Muslim Brotherhood that ultimately led to his current situation, it’s utter nonsense to claim he was just an innocent Irish student abroad caught up in the violence. He wasn’t, he was actively involved in it, there is video evidence to support this. His family’s previously large online presence was also dramatically taken down and erased within days of this, not an easy thing to do for innocent student girls to do. They missed one or two items though.
Every few weeks we have to go through this rubbish of hearing how he’s going on hunger strike, he’s being tortured, he’s being tried for murder etc, etc. If any of it were true he’d be like a Terminator, always coming back. Give it a rest, do his punishment. Yes I know he hasn’t been tried yet, and the Egyptian system is not like Western systems, but then if it were groups like the Muslim brotherhood couldn’t hope to operate like they did and overthrow a government, could they. Can’t have it both ways.
The case of Cork man Eanna Ó Cochláin deserves more highlighting. It has been receiving some publicity in Ireland but the story seems to be flying below most people’s radars.
You can watch him tell his own story here:
https://youtu.be/8J62_STZXqk
In brief, Eanna is a Cork nurse who is married to a Filipino woman Jho and has a 22 year old daughter Caoimhe. He and his wife were in the Philippines two years ago settling the affairs of his wife’s late father’s will. Going through Laoag airport to leave the Philippines, he was searched three times by security staff. A tiny amount of cannabis (0.38g) was mysteriously found on the third search.
He was arrested and later sentenced to 12 years in prison. An appeal has been ongoing for nearly two years. He is out on bail there but trapped in the country (leaving him unable to attend funerals of his mother and a brother and a sister who died in the interim). He claims that he was framed. He describes demands for bribes to make all of this go away, which he (probably unwisely) refused to pay. This seems all too plausible given Filipino corruption levels.
An Independent report him quoted him as saying:
“About two days later I was told if you don’t pay up you will be found guilty. They were threatening to give me 25 years if I did not pay them around €7-10,000. I refused to pay their corruption money, because the problem is they can still lock me up even if I do pay.”
The Cork man believes that he was targeted because officials knew that both he and his family based in Cork had money. His brother on Cork radio also said that Eanna had bought a Filipino beach-front property 20 years ago for next to nothing, which is now in an exclusive location. He had also come under pressure to sell this up. A country like the Philippines is generally corrupt enough that one has to give him the benefit of the doubt. They also knew he was in the country to settle his wife’s dead father’s affairs. Money would be involved.
Other than offering some consular assistance, it seems the Irish government have done next to nothing to help so far. Meanwhile they are jumping through hoops for a Muslim Brotherhood supporter (alleged) arrested in Egypt and this case is constantly and erroneously reported in the media.
As he explains himself, at 55 years of age and with health problems, 12 years in a Filipino prison is effectively a death sentence.
You can sign a petition here on this web page set up by his family:
Bring Eanna Home – Innocent Irish man sentenced to 12 years prison in Philippines:
http://bringeannahome.com/
gkrell I actually never heard of this case fair play to you for the information I will definitely follow the case
Pity the Journal. ie couldn’t get the finger out and do regular articles on Eanna O Cochlain instead of this pro Islamic clown locked up in Egypt
Thanks for that, I would rather see articles on Eanna (haven’t hears of him till now) and would rather show my support for his case which seems more genuine and in need of the governments help!
In April 2013, 5 months before Ibrahim Halawa did his thing in Egypt, Irish woman Aisling Brady McCarthy was arrested in Boston and later charged with the first degree murder of a 1 year old baby she had been a nanny for. We now know this was an overzealous prosecutor and an already very ill baby. Bear in mind that this Irish woman has been confirmed to have had no case to answer to, it wasn’t a question of did she do it or didn’t she, or what explanation would she present. She quite literally woke up one day to be arrested for a terrible crime she knew nothing about, a nightmare that took over two years for her to be exonerated from.
Where was all the media attention for her case in that time? She wasn’t the Irish person receiving the most attention during that period, Ibrahim Halawa was, and indeed still is. She didn’t persistently release lies about her treatment, claim to be on hunger strike – twice and bombard the media every few weeks with lie after lie. And she was innocent. We can learn some things from this, the Ibrahim Halawa needs to realise he’s doing himself no favours with his persistent lies, and innocent Irish people can be arrested and held without trial in America too.
That’s a letter to his family? it reads like a propaganda piece.
Also, for a man whose been nailed to a cross, shocked repeatedly and starving himself for 20 days i cant help but have admiration for his handwriting.
His sister wrote it more likely. You know, the one they don’t let talk to the media anymore because she comes across like an ingrate.
It actually looks very like female handwriting
Ibrahim was trying to overthrow the Egyptian government by being a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood an organization that wants to install Sharia Law in Egypt. ISIS supporters this Sharia ideology just in case anyone is in any doubt as to the monstrosity’s that Ibrahim was advocating and supporting.
Bill, the Muslim brotherhood are the democratically elected government of Egypt, it was them that were overthrown by the Egyptian military , not the other way around, this is what the protest was about.
Yeah and the North Korean government is also “democratically” elected every time.
No gavan!
That’s not what happened!
Let’s not forget that the Muslim brotherhood are strong supporters of sharia law and are also linked to jihadist groups such as ISIS!
Let’s not forget that these groups are suspected to have bombed tourists on a plane two weeks ago.
No Ciaran…that pretty much is what happened…there were protests…Mubarak was ousted (Arab Spring)
Morsi (Muslim Brotherhood) was elected president with just over 50% of the vote on the second count…not sure is this was a democratic election or not – they don’t seem to be big on these in that part of the world but it appeared to be….
And then Morsi ousted by military.
@Gavan Duffy. Democracy Muslim Brotherhood style,-
—”Those dealing with brutal violence speak for themselves. For example, a Muslim man “beat his pregnant wife to death upon learning that she had not voted for the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Muhammad Morsi.” According to police reports, “despite her pleas,” the husband “battered and bruised” her after discovering she had voted for the secularist candidate, Ahmed Shafiq. She died later in the hospital “from injuries sustained.”
–”Prior to Egypt’s presidential elections, Islamists made clear that the electoral process was an obligatory form of “holy war.” Then, any number of Islamic clerics, including influential ones, declared that it was mandatory for Muslims to cheat during elections—if so doing would help Islamist candidates win; that the elections were a form of jihad, and those who die are “martyrs” who will attain the highest levels of paradise. Top Islamic institutions and influential clerics, such as Yusuf al-Qaradawi, issued fatwas decreeing that all Muslims were “obligated” to go and vote for those candidates most likely to implement Sharia law, with threats of hellfire for those failing to do so.—”
http://www.meforum.org/3282/muslim-brotherhood-democracy
Your arguments are void when you link a website that boasts about promoting American interests in other people countries. As much as I distrust the Muslim brotherhood and despise sharia law they were democratically elected and their removal was undemocratic; it was this fact that led him to the protests and onto stage. You can’t have it both ways, you can’t glorify our progressive western society and then support an attack on its cornerstone, i.e. democracy.
@Terra Lynch. Evidence is well documented that the Morsi MB party supporters criminally attacked and stopped Coptic Christians from voting. Esp. they delivered threats to Coptic homes threatening extreme harm to the children of Coptic Christians if the parents voted.
As such ,that election would ,by most fair-minded people, be declared null and void.
Another right wing American website; you are not doing your argument or Christian minorities any favours by quoting such lunatics. Lunatics who are the other side of the religious fundamentalist coin. My argument stands; it’s hypocritical to denounce sharia law and then support an attack in democracy.
@Trea – Truly an idiotic comment by an ill informed person. I had to force myself to stop short of calling you an idiot.
You also stopped short of actually presenting a counter argument…idiot
Anybody else just here for the comments?
Whatever your view on this person as a mark of principle the government need to step in here. An Irish citizen (the details I will leave others to debate) has been unlawfully detained indefinitely without trial. I can’t see this happening a Brit or a yank!
Egypt has its own laws it doesn’t matter where you have citizenship. If you become a nuisance to their way of life you will face the charges. If you’re visiting another country don’t be a degenerate it’s that simple. I could have American citizenship and get arrested here and then claim I’m from America. Do you not see how he’s just trying to abuse his citizenship? He can stay in Egyptian prison where he belongs. He’s pathetic.
“I live in Ireland but Egypt is my home” he says in the video of his presenting to his Muslim Brotherhood chums at the demo in Egypt.
So when he talks about ‘home’ above I presume he means Egypt?
He must be strong as an ox, he should be dead already seen as he’s been on hunger strike for nearly a year!!!
They tricked him off the first one using the Irish Prison Service method…..by offering the ‘Snack Box’ meal.
He is also living in a time loop because he has been 19 for the last two years
According to his passport he wS born in Dec’95
“Crucifixion and electrocution” I’ll bet that wasn’t included in the “holiday” brochure he got.
You find it amusing when an Irish citizen is tortured by a foreign dictatorship?
Says a lot about your moral bankruptcy Wardy.
Egyptian citizen who is an acolyte of the Muslim Brotherhood. You play with fire don’t be surprised if you get burnt.
Irish citizen under Irish law.
Diarmuid it’s odd that he was supporting the Muslim brotherhood and their plans to introduce/ reinforce sharia throughout Egypt. I’d have thought that would anathema to your average Irish citizen.
He hasn’t been tortured. He’s just making stuff up at this stage
You don’t lose your citizenship if you’re stupid.
Guessing you’re still an Irish citizen “Rowe”, despite the fact you’re an idiot?
Diarmuid, what I find amusing is you accusing me of moral bankruptcy when on another article you vilify SF on one hand and then use them and the PIRA to justify your arguments on the other! Any how that’s a different matter.
Do you think that just because you are an Irish citizen that it gives you a God given right to some sort of special treatment in another country? Halawa knew before he went to Egypt what the country was like and what the situation on the ground was. He knew what happens in the prisons and Egypt’s less than satisfactory human rights record so it should have come as no great surprise to him that he is now in the world of $hit and dealing with some very nasty people and practices. If you go into a fire, expect to get burnt.
He might have gotten some sympathy from me if this whole bull$sit story about being an innocent holiday maker being caught up in the riots hadn’t been peddled about. Maybe the next time he books his “holidays” he will try not to involve himself in rioting and maybe stick to something a bit more sedate.
As before, if a ‘dual citizen’ becomes embroiled in difficulty in the state of his other citizenship, the second state cannot assist them.
It is also suggested, widely, he renounced his acquired Irish citizenship so, stay at home please!
Lucky for you
I also wouldn’t find it amusing if Irish citizens, of a SF/PIRA persuasion, were being tortured by a foreign regime, say the UK…
Would you find such a scenario amusing Wardy?
Would you legitimise such torture with throwaway “play with fire, get burned” comments?
Ooooohhh I’m rattled after that Diarmuid, try harder clown.
Guessing you’re not
Xenotrolls out in force…
Diarmuid I never said anything about legitimizing torture in any way but I know that your usual MO is to make up stuff and attribute it to the person who calls your bluff so as to try to discredit them.
Torture is wrong by any regime including the UK whose torture of Irish citizens in the past has been used to justify the torture by the US and it’s allies including Egypt in the present.
If you go to a country in the middle of massive civil upheaval, take part in illegal demonstrations and rioting and then get banged up in jail then my attitude is you made your bed so now sleep in it. I wouldn’t mind but it’s not like he didn’t know what the regime and prisons are like seeing as he has Egyptian relatives on the ground so the “dumb tourist ” defence is even more stupid.
I see all the racist 5cumbags are out in force today. It’s Friday lads, no need for the hate. Although, that said, Friday is probably the worst day of the week for you shut ins, isn’t it. My condolences for your terrible lives. I’m sure there’ll be something decent on the telly tonight though, lads.
Define what you mean by “racist” Eamonn?
Wardy…
Your “holiday brochure” jibe is ridiculing.
Your “play with fire, get burned” and “make your bed, sleep in it” comments could be applied to any PIRA prisoner in England over the decades.
Are you that blinded by your own hypocrisy?
There’s that ” racist ” word being thrown out again .
Diarmuid the PIRA prisoners weren’t on “holidays” at the time were they? I do take note tough your concern for PIRA political prisoners and the unjust torture that they have suffered over the years.
Diarmuid is a great humanitarian and all round holy person, we know this coz he supports multicult and mass-immigration, but one wonders why he is not supporting native Egyptians in their own country being attacked by a foreigner who travelled to their country to stir up trouble.
Diarmuid has no problem supporting foreigners who also come to Ireland, changing native way of life. Odd what makes you holy in this new multicult religion
-Support of foreigners making trouble in other foreigners countries = good
-support for foreign natives in their own country = bad
-support for foreigners invading your own country = good
-support for natives in their own country = bad
Oh right so Provo prisoners didn’t give false alibis?!
Nah, I just think all Irish citizens should be afforded basic human rights.
You see, I’m not a hypocrite Wardy…
I wonder are you a citizen
What are you on about false alibi’s for? Are you saying that Halawa was in Egypt under false pretences?? And since when did you start caring a toss about Republican prisoners? I doubt I’ve ever seen you calling for any inquiry into the torture carried out by the Brits over the years.
Who cares wtf he said about holidays?!
All Irish citizens should have their human rights respected.
Flute.
“Who cares wtf he said about holidays?!”
People care Diarmuid because he tried to pull the wool over peoples eyes and pretended that he was just an innocent victim who was in the wrong place at the wrong time instead of someone who actively sought out trouble, conflict and danger. He said himself “Everyone is willing to give themselves to the last bullet.”
He may well just get his wish.
So because he allegedly lied, he loses his human rights? He “made his bed”, he must lie in it?
So your beloved PIRA prisoners never told a lie?!
They should give him his trial and either sentence him or free him and let that be the end of it .
@EiteBlood
He is an Irish citizen under Irish law and has as such the same rights that you have!
Hope this fact seriously damages your Friday night and gives you nightmares!
@Ward
So an Irish citizen with dual citizenship goes from Dublin to Derry or Belfast during the troubles to visit his relatives and decides to join them for a peaceful protest against the British regime got murdered by the British Army or even just arrested and tortured should not complain since he should have known better? It’s that what you’re trying to say?
Ah Diarmuid give it up would ya! He said “Everyone is willing to give themselves to the last bullet.” He knew what he was getting in to, he knew what he was doing, he knew the consequences and now he is paying the price.
If you are so worried about his human rights then you should be thankful that he didn’t get his wish that Sharia Law wasn’t in force otherwise he wouldn’t be around now to complain about his situation.
Diarmuid…do you write to him?or email?
Diarmuid..it looks like you are his only spokesperson….his family don’t defend him here..unless…….
Wardy, you don’t lose your human rights based on BS you say. Stick “Tiocfaidh ár lá” at the end of that statement and he sounds like any of your beloved Provos.
Your scattered selective hypocrisy is something to behold.
Sometimes bad people just happen to also be foreign; doesn’t make you a xenophobe for pointing out that they are a tool
He is NOT f*ing Irish ..
Yeah he is. Facist, racist 5cum like you aren’t Irish.
He should not have gone looking for trouble in first place he went with irish passport he then said fck ireland and tore up his pp and took his brother hood stand but when he got caught he suddenly claimed to be irish again. He should have stayed home outa trouble
I see he had a new passport issued earlier this year ….. I wonder why …??
A passport is a piece of paper, not citizenship.
He’s on hunger strike already for 20 days?? So in about another 40 days…
Didn’t they deny that he tore up his Irish passport ???
Tearing your passport does not invalidate your citizenship.
Why do we have to keep hearing about this Egyptian lad who is imprisoned awaiting trial for activities that happened there? I really don’t give a damn what happens to him.
I do, I care that the Irish government don’t waste any time or money and take him back!
Change the bloody record
The headline says “Crucifixion and electrocution – the horrendous conditions of Ibrahim Halawa’s captivity”
It should say – “Crucifixion and electrocution – “the alleged horrendous conditions of Ibrahim Halawa’s captivity”
@Alesis. Carefully crafted speech uses Christian symbol of the cross to evoke sympathy from a Christian audience.
Was Halawa in Egypt during the burning and ransacking of the Coptic Christian Churches?
WhetHer so or not let there be no sympathy for the likes of these Muslim Brother-Hood supporters below.
—”Muslim Brotherhood attacked and burned 52 Churches in 24 hours started on the 14th of August 2013 till today the 15th of August 2013 – At the end of that article you will find a list, that I managed to gather with all the names of Churches in different cities which all got stolen and burned besides Christians homes and private properties.—”
http://www.emannabih.com/muslim-brotherhood-massacres-against-christians-in-egypt/
Was just thinking I hadn’t heard the halawa sisters shouting at us on tv and radio stations for a while. Thanks journal for being their PR mouthpiece.
Do they ever come on here to argue his case?
Somebody with association to SF branded me racist a few weeks ago because I said about this chap:
“he went looking for trouble and thats what he got now his family are crying about it well didn’t they say not 2 go”
@Paul. Was he one of the Hamas terrorist apologists SF types that ply their Jew-hatred under the guise of BDS out in front of the GPO at week-ends by any chance?
When I questioned their program they asked me if I was Jewish….Out and out bigots they are!
I’m not suprised at all,at all that the’yr howling for Halawa .
BDS,incidently, is widely suspected of being financed by Terror states Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and NGO’S t
Should have read ‘and Israeli-demonizing NG0,s…
question is Paul, did it affect you, did that spell engender feelings of shame and guilt designed to make you do what other people want or did you laugh them off and defend your opinion?
Widely suspected by who Patrick? You and the other Hasbara mouthpieces. All of your arguments add up to the same old rubbish, anyone who disagrees with Israel is an anti Semite or a self hating Jew , mudslinging, play the ball not the man.
@Gavan Duffy. Not just by me but many qualified people globally can evidemce that BDS is not a charity but, like a lot of things Islamic, a front for demonizing Israel and thus terrorizing Jews who support Israel. In fact, all of Islam,masquerading as a religion, is a front for Islamo-Fascist Expansion and Conquest.
In short BDS is nothing but a front for Hamas’s famous promise in The Hamas Charter.
—”Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it” (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory). —”
Palestinian Terror-Group Links to the BDS Movement Many Palestinian groups that claim to support nonviolence often exist alongside, and not in place of, groups that support violent “resistance.” For example, in November 2008 the BDS National Committee produced a position paper titled “United Against Apartheid, Colonialism and Occupation: Dignity & Justice for the Palestinian People.”76 Among the endorsers of this paper is the London-based Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), which, according to the Israeli defense minister’s designation, is part of Hamas’ European section. Another endorser is the Swiss-based Alkarama for Human Rights. In December 2013 the U.S. Treasury categorized as “Specially Designated Global Terrorists” both the president of the Council of Alkarama, the Qatar-based Sheikh Abd al-Rahman bin ‘Umayr al-Nu’aymi,77 and the organization’s representative in Yemen, `Abd al-Wahhab Muhammad `Abd al-Rahman al-Humayqani, for their funding of various al-Qaeda groups.78 The top-listed signatory on the 2005 call is the Council of National and Islamic Forces in Palestine (CNIF). The CNIF is described as the “coordinating body for the major political parties in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”79 It is also a member of the BDS National Committee. – See more at: http://jcpa.org/unmasking-bds/#sthash.xGkOYlAU.dpuf.
” ” – that’s how much I care!!
No really, what I do have to say about this is ” !” Sorry nodded off there!
@ Prof. : ” “
yep, actions and consequences
How dafuq does the fact he is or isn’t Irish have any bearing on somebody being involved in a terrorist organisation abroad.
How many morons are on here week in week out that think an Irish passport is some form of international get out of jail free card for this clown
Let discuss something more interesting. … Abigail? ??
A…big…gail the met office slipped in a funny pun there.
Egyptian brakes the law in Egypt if only he hadn’t of listened to his da.
Is it that time already?
It’s been a while.
TBF it has been at least a month, so we were over due.
Odd that the piece mentions Si Si cracking down, but not the Muslim Brotherhood nor why he did.
Don’t care.
Did he use passport express. ?
Nice picture on twitter of his ‘new’ passport.
He’s not even Irish ..???!
The real irish in this country are now sick of this Islamic terrorist a long time ago. Time to move on and allow the mullahs to impose shria law on his Egyptian ass. The trouble is we are still stuck with his wailing relations on about western values when it suits them
The only prisoner who comes off a hunger strike when he feels hungry.
Mass-immigration is an illegal policy, contravening Irish sovereignty, thus none who came since the inception of mass-immigration or in any scheme where people were just allow avail of loop-holes and get work after studying here, now or allowed in in the past are legally here or have acquired a legally binding or valid citizenship – since the premise of it is illegal and a violation of Irish sovereignty in the first place. Therefore Halawa is not Irish and not an Irish citizen.
Better send those mass-migrant Vikings back too then Bloodso…
Where’s your usual swastika profile pic btw?
Vikings invaded, they was no welcome mat for them, we were allowed resist them with weapons, you going to allow us oppose mass-immigration too. Plus Vikings were Europeans, similar DNA and culture to Irish/gaels/celts unlike Africans, arabs and asians coming here. Your aren’t comparing like with like
Whatever about swastika pic, sometimes the profile pic does not post on J.ie for whatever reason, click profile if you want to see profile pic, nice abstract colours and geometric shapes, triangles, circles etc
Good lad Bloodso… let your Neo-Nazi colours shine through…
Couldn’t possibly be a neo-nazi
1. Nazi was a derogatory term invented by marxists, national socialist being the correct term
2. This is Ireland, not Germany
3. This is the journal.ie they do not allow national socialists, do I couldn’t possibly be one
So the term “Nazi” is offensive to a Neo-National Socialist like yourself Bloodso?
Lol.
Diarmuid…his dad intrigues me..he won’t speak English,do interviews,or drive a car….go on,tell us more..
Diarmuid….do some folk in Clonskeagh know you as…………Somaia?or 1 of her sisters? Welcome to the Journal…were all like family here,come in,tell us what you need us to know….how’s Dad?
Now tell us who you are troll and what was the name of your last banned troll account?
What took him there in the first place and have people forgotten what and where he was when he was arrested?
Yawn.
Who is this guy, is he one of the Offaly Halawa’s ?
Good article here on this whole story:
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/ibrahim-halawa-the-inside-story-1.2310182
Fozz , take into consideration the Irish Times slant on this guy , unless you are at the extreme end of lefty liberalism there is no place in the Irish version of the Guardian for you , I agree that this guy is in an awful place but it is of his own making , the organisation he is involved with the Muslim Brotherhood are a vile gang who have no place in our country
How many Egyptians would be in an awful place or dying an horrendous death because of the change he wanted brought upon them
I see the guardian is painting Isis executioner jihadi john as some innocent lad who was lead astray. Astounding stuff.
Irish Citizen ? In his “home country ” supporting a terrorist organization, Now want the “infidels ” to get him out of jail ? .Do our country a favour stay there
His sister was on channel 4 news last week crying to the British to help
Which sister?you remember her name?
The one that looks like E.T
Yeah that narrows it down!!!
I saw that interview. Here’s a picture of two of the sisters. I think it was one of those two who was interviewed.
http://www.gazettegroup.com/news/council-supports-detainee-egypt/
hopefully once they give him the rope we won’t see any more rubbish articles like this one again.
Comment deleted ffs. Grow some balls will ye.
Good Man Ibrahim, ditch the water also..it’s more efficient ask your sisters.
Noone cares
The young lad was duped – most young fellas want to impress their old man. Unfortunately in this fella’s case his old man is a religious fanatic and as an expat Brotherhood bigwig had to represented when it was going off in the home country. So the poor unfortunate tried to impress Daddy by trying to prove he was tough. The rest of us might be lucky and have family members who would stand up for us against a nutcase father. But this young 17 year old lad was doubly screwed by having equally fanatical sisters.
@Johnny A. Just to show how fanatical these Imams from Al Azhar Uni in Cairo are trained, the chief suspect of the Russian Plane bombing, is a graduate in Islamic doctrine and a colleague of Halawa’s Dad. Halawa jr. must have been well and truly brainwashed by his Clonskeagh Imam daddy. Is our Govt., who encouraged the Clonskeagh Mosque,capable of putting the dots together yet?
Sinai plae bomber info.
—”Masri, 42, is a former scholar of the al-Azhar University in Cairo, a 1,000-year-old Sunni Muslim institution. In November 2014 his Sinai-based organisation pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed ISIS caliph, in return for weapons, finance and potential bomb-making know-how. – See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2015/11/imam-unmasked-as-plane-bombing-mastermind.html/#sthash.2cI9l5pH.dpuf
I understand he was protesting in favour of what the average Irish person may be at odds with but he was just protesting. I don’t think he deserves this kind of treatment (very few people do).
I don’t think he deserves or has the right to be called Irish, he was agitating for the murder of innocent Egyptians
Irrespective of his nationality and/or ethnicity, his punishment doesn’t fit his crime, to be fair.
What has his punishment been?
So far being locked up does fit with him agitating for a brutal change in the lives of Egyptian people via his support for the muslim brotherhood, imagine if he had not been caught, and we have these sort of muslims living here, wonder what they support?
Protesting isn’t a crime, or at least it shouldn’t be.
Agitating for an overthrown of power is though
He was protesting against Morsi’s overthrowing.
Anyone who has sympathy for these muslims should shoulder some responsibility for what’s happening in Paris now.
Not really the best timing to bring up Mr. Halawa’s unlawful detention for supporting Islamist fanaticism, in the light of events in Paris last night, is it?
Whatever your thoughts and opinions regarding this issue, it can’t be denied that the Irish government and in particular Charlie Flanagan as Minister for Foreign Affairs have done very little to secure his release.
At the end of the day,he is still an Irish citizen.
Do you think all it takes is a phone call to get him released Charles ? If I committed or you committed a crime in another country do you think it’s up to the Irish government just to make a call and get me released??
Irish citizen me foot
“At the end of the day,he is still an Irish citizen” He should produce his passport then, or did his new one get lost in the post.
@Suzie – I appreciate that it involves more than a phone call but he is entitled to diplomatic/consular representation as an Irish citizen regardless of the crime.
I am fully aware that efforts have been made – simply saying that more could be done.similar to the governments of those arrested with him, some who have since been released following intervention.
If it was Patrick O’Toole from Co Wicklow then I am sure the comments and attitudes displayed on this platform would be considerably different and more sympathetic and his innocence would not be questioned.
Pretty sure I will get a huge number of red thumbs for the comment which will simply prove my point.
No right minded Irish citizen would go to Egypt protesting for Sharia law.. If he’s an Irish citizen then I’m a chain smoking Duck
Our citizenship being taken advantage of and being thrown around to the rest of the world who manage to plonk themselves on our shores…….
@Periguin – the production of a passport is not required to determine citizenship.
I hold duel nationality – in the early 90′s, I would travel to the US on a British passport for Visa reasons – I would use my Irish passport for travel in Europe and Asia for the same reasons but mainly for my own security.
Had reason to seek consular advise on one visit to the US – the Irish Embassy didn’t deny me advise just because I entered the US on a British passport – still treated me as an Irish citizen.
Charles , if he was Patrick o toole from Co Wicklow he wouldn’t have been in Egypt protesting and showing his support would he ? See the difference ? It’s what he represents that is the problem .
Rowe – I think you missed my point!
Charles , if it was Patrick O Toole from Wicklow he wouldn’t be over there protesting and supporting would he ? It’s what he represents that people have a problem with .
Suzie – thanks for pointing out the blindingly obvious but I would like to think you understood the point I was making!
Suzie – I understand the issue is what he represents but as an Irish citizen, he is entitled to consular assistance regardless of the governments view as to the alleged offence.
This right extends to every citizen who encounters difficulties abroad regardless of passport of passport where dual nationality applies.
Whilst I may be in a minority on this platform regarding my opinion, I believe in general there are many who believe that the Department of Foreign Affairs could do more to assist.
Charles , he’s had over 50 consular visits , that’s more than other person in trouble abroad .
Why don’t you check out the cork man Eanna and see how much support the government has given him and maybe explain why halawa is getting all the attention from the government and not this man ?
Or have a look at Kenneth coalter held for two years in the canary islands , any support for him ?
@ Suzi, non of them has a daddy who runs a mosque in this country.
ah here Patrick o toole is a quiet inoffensive type of chap suzie.
Egypt is totally corrupt. The Army Generals are paid directly by the US to keep the peace with Israel. This subvention of $1 billion+ does not go through the Egyptian Dept of Finance. The generals actually own the resort of Sharm El Sheik (have you ever tried to drive a rental car from there to Cairo?) as well as many other industries in the country. It is impossible for a bright young person to pass exams without greasing the palm of officials. It is heartbreaking. It was so sad to see the enthusiasm of the Tahrir Square Arab Spring being replaced by another military dictator – Sisi. I really pity this Irish citizen being in an Egyptian hellhole prison. The Dept of Foreign Affairs (and our MEP’s) should redouble its efforts to get Ibrahim out.
For anyone interested there is a wonderful song in Irish and Arabic about the war in Iraq on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp69eVX0k0Q
In light of what happened in Paris, anyone found to be supporting “the brotherhood” should be left to rot in jail. Pure evil, true and true with the ability to manipulate. I don’t want people like that in our country.
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