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"We have no other option than to make noise," says Jaennette Rizk, 29, currently on its way to the next demonstration. For four days she lives in a state of emergency. Her brother was arrested, searched their apartment, threatened her father. Jaennette Rizk has since become the Spokesperson of their family, has given dozens of interviews, an internet campaign losgetreten.
Her brother, is the German-Egyptian student, blogger and journalist Philip Rizk, 26, in the last night of Friday to Saturday
was arrested, according to the family of Egyptian domestic intelligence service. Since then, neither the family nor Philips friends heard of him.
Philip Rizk operates
the blog "tabulagaza". It publishes reports on Palestinian refugees and the Gaza Strip. The topic has long been employed him: he has himself in the Gaza Strip, lived and a film about the people there turned. He supports journalists who are on the ground even a picture of the position sought, and he has helped to create drugs there.
On the night of last Friday to Saturday was Philip Rizk on the way back from a protest march along with about 15 friends. The police stopped the group and gave them several hours. Finally, officials asked specifically for him, grabbed him and drove in a minivan with no license plates away. His friends tried to follow the car, but police blocked their path. So tell it consistent eyewitness and his sister.
Who makes crash in Egypt, lives dangerously
Now, Jeannette Rizk to lobbyists for the freedom of her brother, and thus become itself to political activist. Because who does crash in Egypt, the politically involved - and makes enemies.
Rizk family lived just two nights after the arrest of Philip. Jeannette and her parents had just put to sleep because it rang at the door. "Five men in civilian standing in front of the door," says Jeannette, "two in Kampfänzügen and machine guns." They searched the house, "in search of evidence against Philip, the presumed sister.
At this time there was neither an indictment nor an official accusation against Philip. The family had just about detours learned that he was actually arrested. Someone from the American University in Cairo, at the Philip studied, had made an unofficial security circles confirmation.
Unusually, the approach of the authorities in Egypt have not. Already since 1981 the state of emergency prevails. This allows the government of President Husni Mubarak and the security apparatus, a suspect at any time and without any specific allegation arrest. According to official figures sit so 1800 prisoners in prisons and camps, without them the process was made. Human rights organizations estimate the number much higher, at around 10,000.
Nocturnal house searches and Ablenkungsmaneuver
In the house of the family Rizk found the security forces, not a burden, but then wanted to bring the father to ask him. Rallied Only a lawyer who also worked for Amnesty International, was able to prevent.
"I suspect, however, that all this was just a Ablenkungsmaneuver," says Rizk blogs Jaennette ONLINE, at the same time, her apartment and her brother have been screened. Philips laptop if they had taken away his iPod, their video camera and two hard drives of Jeannette, then their complete computer backup, and a documentary, as the thesis on the lives of women in Cairo had rotated.
Jeannette Rizk
Philip Rizk: blogger, student, activist globalized
Several reports of Egyptian authorities have now confirmed that Rizk detention. The New York Times quoted a spokesperson of the Ministry of Interior, a general who does not want to be named: "It all happened under the Egyptian law. Please contact the Office of the Attorney General."
The Foreign Office in Berlin has already confirmed last Saturday that the case was known and the German Embassy to try to clarify. A spokeswoman said blogs ONLINE on Tuesday, the embassy was in contact with the family and the Egyptian authorities. We strive to consular access to Philip Rizk.
An Internet campaign to mobilize international support
In the meantime, the Internet is an impressive campaign supporters started. The Facebook group "Support and Prayer for the safe release of Philip Rizk has more than 4500 members. In "Flickr", there are
Slideshows of solidarity demonstrations in Cairo, in Twitter write numerous micro-bloggers on any development and call for an online petition to support it. In England and the USA swashes the digital outrage just about right to life: In London, New York and San Francisco protesters want to meet with protest marches.
Twitter is also one of the first to have reported the arrest. An Arab Socialist group wrote that Rizk had been kidnapped, the editor in chief of an American Evangelicals newspaper reported the arrest Friday night at 3:47 clock.
The excitement in the network across all countries and cultural boundaries is not surprising, when the biography of Philip Rizk knows. It could give activists a globalized, highly educated, with friends and supporters, readers and listeners around the world.
The global activist
He was born in Cyprus, raised in Cairo, where he visited the German school. His father, who runs a small publishing house, came from Egypt, his mother from Germany. Philip holds dual citizenship.
In order to study philosophy, he went for a semester in Freiburg, and then with a scholarship in the USA, Wheaton. Now he works on his master's work at the American University in Cairo, he is also dealing with the Gaza conflict. He speaks fluent English, Arabic and German. Friends who long to know him describe him as calm and considered. "But in a political discussion he could not offer the forehead, argumentative, he is the most superior," says one, who already knows from the kindergarten, but because of his own family in Egypt does not want to be called. Philip was deeply devout Christian - also a drive for his commitment.
As for his master's work returned to Cairo, he joined a group of young activists, half Egyptian, half foreigners. You call for "solidarity with the Palestinian people" and organized the protest march last Friday in one place, about an hour away from Cairo. Philip Rizk wore a debt on which he calls in Arabic script: "We have had enough. Opens the Rafah borders." Rafah crossing is the Gaza Strip, which Egypt does not open, if Israel does not agree.
But who the Egyptian government policy criticized, lives dangerously. For security circles in Cairo was reported on Tuesday, except Rizk was in the past few days, another blogger has been arrested on the Internet solidarity with the Palestinians and called the Egyptian Middle East policy was criticized. Dia al-Din Gad was on Friday at his home in the province Gharbija, northwest of Cairo, had been arrested, it was said.
Jeannette Rizk, the sister, the spokeswoman for the family, will continue to demonstrate the web site update, give interviews, herumtelefonieren and after her brother wastage. Recent unofficial sources indicate that the security forces kept him in an institution in a northern Cairo suburb noted. Jeannette Rizk will try to make him clothes and food to bring a plate and Ritter Sport. "The mag he was so happy," she says. On Thursday, Philip birthday, he is 27th
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