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THE TRIAL OF Ibrahim Halawa has been postponed for the 13th time and put back until 26 June.
It means the Irishman will have spent almost three years in jail without trial. He has already been imprisoned for 942 days.
The 20-year-old has already been jailed since August 2013 without his case being heard.
Halawa was jailed after he attended a Cairo demonstration supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, which had been ousted from power by the Egyptian military.
The Muslim Brotherhood had won both parliamentary and presidential elections, but after further political unrest and violence, the military assumed control.
The Dublin teenager was arrested at a protest during the height of this instability and was charged along with 493 others. They were charged with offences including murder, attempted murder and participating in an illegal protest.
The repeated delaying of the trial is partly because the Egyptian courts are seeking to try him in a mass trial involving hundreds of people.
Amnesty International’s Irish director Colm O’Gorman has described the latest delay in his trial as “obscene”. The group also says that his arrest was “unlawful” and that he could not have committed the violent crimes with which is is charged.
“The farcical nature of the Egyptian legal system has again been highlighted as Ibrahim’s trial has been delayed for the thirteenth time,” O’Gorman said this afternoon.
During this time, this young Irish citizen has been living in truly horrific conditions in an Egyptian prison cell. Ibrahim is a prisoner of conscience detained solely for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly.
The European Parliament has also adopted a resolution seeking his immediate release and the Department of Foreign Affairs have been active in campaigning for his freedom.
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So disappointed with Phil. All talk etc. No pay parity. No parity on working hours. I’m hoping she’ll be very disappointed with the voting.
@Catherine Gaffney: 55cc’s of brown envelope’s stat
Nothing we marched or went on strike for, is being addressed or rectified. An entire profession being sold out. Mighty nurses indeed.
From what I hear from the nurses I know they are far from impressed with the deal.
@James O’Donovan: I know that student nurses weren’t even asked their opinion, while the Inmo seem to be on a solo run completely at odds with actual nurses demands over conditions.
They might get a suprise from their members .its a bad deal.I think phil is liam Doran in suprise.all her talk @ the start was just a load of waffle
@matthew o reilly: maybe nurses should start another union? Nurses I know want more staff on the wards more than an extra fiver.
What about the facts that they are more and more self serving and patients are getting less and less care while they are getting more money?
@Viola Bingham: what” facts” would they be Viola?
It’s a case of one step forward and two steps backwards for nurses, a poor deal full of conditions, many unacceptable.
The nurses will decide, not phil nor the labour courts nor the politicians. And strike again if ye have to. This gov is a disgrace anyway.
What deal did the Nurses get for the people who have to use their departments? I heard a lot about concern for patients during the strike but I see none of it in this deal.
Another sellout by INMO executive.
Nothing has changed. Doran used to waffle for weeks about conditions, the real problem, and threaten strike action,the govt then throw a few bob their way and suddenly a deal is struck. Highest waiting lists ever in Limerick at present and was in A&E in a Dublin hospital this week and it was like a scene from MASH. Phil and Co should step down. I know it’s in their interest to continue to let patients suffer in these conditions as it justifies their existence, IR turbulence, but the nurses should rebel against this shower for selling them out again. Conditions will never improve with this crowd supposedly leading the drive for change.
Now now everyone calm down…
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