The Christian man was released from Egyptian prison last month after three years of detention for a Facebook post shared between Christian to Islamist groups.
Yemeni native Abdulbaki Saeed Abd was part of a Christian Facebook group that discussed Islamic theology and apologies. According to Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) International. In 2021, Abd was arrested for a Facebook post while living as an asylum seeker in Egypt. After converting to Christianity, he faced the threat of death in Yemen.
ADF International, which supports legal defense, helped secure his release by filing his case with the UN Working Group on arbitrary detention, but the charges against him have been dismissed. He said the lawsuit remains open before state security authorities because of this.
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After converting to Christianity, Abdulbaki Abd faced the threat of death in Yemen. (ADF International)
Egyptian authorities reportedly arrested Abdo along with another Christian man named Nour Girgis after the partnership with their Facebook page was discovered. ADF International said the authorities now “are claiming they are involved in terrorist activities.”
The father of five endured serious circumstances before being released from prison last month. He was moved between several detention centers throughout his three years of incarceration and even received a starvation strike within his last six months in despair. He suffered from poor health related to his heart, liver and kidneys.
“I have endured many difficulties in prison. I should not keep me in these terrible states because of the faith that the government chooses to separate me from my family and believe in me peacefully. “Abd said of his release.
“I thanked everyone who prayed for me while I was in prison, cared about my case, followed up and shared the joy of being released from prison,” he added. Ta.
Abd's son Husam Baki criticized the fact that individuals “we are not allowed to freely believe and express their beliefs and were imprisoned or killed for their faith.”
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Kelsey Zorzi, ADF International's head of religious freedom advocacy, said ABDO's arbitrary intentional detention without criminal trials and that he has no opportunity to protect himself from alleged crimes.
“The peaceful expression of one's religious beliefs cannot constitute a crime either in Egypt or elsewhere in the world,” she said. “This incident illustrates the edge of unconfirmed government censorship in the online age. The world must be careful.”
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a researcher at the Hoover facility at Stanford University and founder of the AHA Foundation, previously told Fox News Digital that ordinary people were trapped to simply express their beliefs on a private Facebook forum, “grotesque.” He previously spoke of the idea that it is.
Abd's letter he wrote from prison to his family. (ADF International)
“The incarceration of Yemeni refugee Abdulbaki Saeed Abd, at the hands of Egyptian authorities, is a surreal example of censorship policies in action,” she said. “That's also illegal. Egyptian officials are in violation of the human rights of this father and husband.”
Ali was a refugee from Somali and was a victim of female genital mutilation in the Muslim community. Ali, a formerly well-known atheist, announced in November that she had converted to Christianity. Due to her outspoken rhetoric against the Muslim Brotherhood, she faces constant threats of death.
“This is a logical conclusion to the tendency for authorities to empower innocent people to brutalize free expression on social media,” she added. “From China to Pakistan, Russia to Syria, Britain to Egypt, free speeches must be urgently protected from the resurrected Stalinism of our age.”
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