German-Egyptian student arrested in Cairo.

He demonstrated against the war in the Gaza Strip, now he is at an undisclosed location on hold. Philip Rizk The student, 26, tried with movies, demos, and his blog to create awareness for Palestinians - he was now to doom?

 

The Middle East conflict and the suffering of the people in the Gaza Strip, with no other topic, the student and blogger Philip Rizk, 26, as so busy with this. Two years he has lived the Gaza Strip, a film and journalists, who place themselves in front of a picture of the situation wanted. He has helped medicines in the Gaza Strip to create a blog, and he operated, "tabulagaza".

Jeannette Rizk
jeannette Rizk

Now Philip Rizk been arrested in Egypt - because of his political engagement, as his friends and his family suspect.

A little bit, it sounds like an agent story, what his sister Jeanette and political activist Salma Said tell: As with Philip Rizk Said and other friends in the night from Friday to Saturday with a demonstration returned to Cairo, they were stopped by the police and for several hours has been fixed. Finally, officers were targeted after Rizk asked him in a minibus with no license plate and had them done there. His friends were from the police have been prevented from the car to follow.

"We knew not only where Philip," said his sister blogs ONLINE. There is currently no formal indictment, he was not been charged. "But he is likely to become loud and uncomfortable," she says. Meanwhile, he was the "headquarters of the National Security Service" has been, she says, "that we have today from unofficial sources, the National Security experience."

A confirmation of this date, there is not. A spokesman for the Egyptian Interior Ministry said it was no reports on the arrest before. The Foreign Office in Berlin confirmed by the fact that the case is known and the message was spot on. "We strive to educate," said a spokesman.

Philip Rizk is German-Egyptian, he has dual citizenship. His father is from Egypt, his mother from Germany. He was born in Cyprus, raised in Cairo, where he visited the German school. In order to study philosophy, he went for a semester in Freiburg, and then with a scholarship in the USA, Wheaton. Now he studies Studys Middle East at the American University in Cairo. Currently he works on his master's work, he is also dealing with the Gaza conflict.

In interviews and in his blog Rizk has repeatedly written about Gaza. His last entry dated Wednesday, 4 February. There, he reported rumors that Egypt access to the refugee camp and the town of Rafah in the Gaza Strip for journalists and doctors have blocked.

With the demonstration on Friday he wanted along with activists from Spain, Britain, the United States and Poland on the situation in the Gaza Strip attention. "Our march is a reminder of the ongoing suffering in Palestine," it quoted the website of the newspaper "Daily News Egypt on Friday.