When imprisoned in a “reserve prison”, you are not given a specific timeframe for your release, and successive renewals of your stay there may take place indefinitely. This type of prison in Egypt, is often called the ‘Forgotten Prison’, the same one in which Shadi Habash died a few months ago, after he realized that he had too, been forgotten.
Attacking Wassef Al-Harakeh was silmuntaneous with Lebanon witnessing a rise in security and judicial raids on freedom of expression and criticism, leading to an increased amount of summons and arrest warrants due to the said expressed opinions or social media posts..
If we overlook the insulting and provoking reactions to appointing Tawakkol Kerman an Oversight Board member, we will be stunned by the shallow arguments, especially as these reactions did not come from those who care about democracy and freedom, but from opportunists..
