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CYPRUS-EGYPT: The “love-struck” hijacker – a story of state repression garnished with social media gossip!

26 April 2016

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"In his letter, Mr Mustafa explained that he hijacked the plane to remind the international community that a dictatorship rules his country, that people are incarcerated without a fair trial and that his demand was the release of many women prisoners detained undemocratically by the regime. He also expressed his wish to receive international protection by the Cypriot authorities because in the event of his return to Egypt, he will not have a fair trial and he will be treated inhumanly.

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Unfortunately, the way Cyprus has handled this case is not an isolated incident. The manner in which the Cypriot government recently conducted itself politically in the handling of the extradition of two Russian dissenters denotes its deliberate indifference to violations of human rights in the altar of political expediencies and the protection of its relationship with its “strategic” partners.""

The article notes that the Cypriot authorities have not permitted Mr Mustafa access to the asylum procedure, nor have they permitted him to access his lawyer or sent him for assessment by a psychologist, despite claims of his "psychological instability". Instead, an extradition order for him to be returned to Egypt was "signed between the two countries on the basis of their collaboration in the fields of energy, drilling and exploitation of hydrocarbons."

See the full text: The “love-struck” hijacker – a story of state repression garnished with social media gossip! (KISA, link)

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