Mohamed Abdelhafiz: Deported from Turkey to face death

The Egyptian social media has been buzzing with the haunting photo of a young Egyptian man handcuffed and seated on a flight from Turkey as he was being deported to Egypt, a country he had to run away from to safe his life. 

This is Mohamed Abdel Hafiz with his son who was born outside of Egypt and has no documentation because of his father's political history. The wife and son are still stranded in an African country while Mohamed is forcibly disappeared in Egypt since his deportation.

Before he got to Turkey in January 2019, Mohamed had to run away from Egypt into several African and Asian countries (Sudan, Somalia, Malaysia, and others) after he was framed in a political case with hundreds of other innocent young Egyptians.

Turkish authorities deported him back to Egypt while aware of his death sentence and the fact he will be tortured or killed upon returning to Egypt. Mohamed is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and that shouldn't be a crime in itself as Sisi's government claims.
But mass executions in Egypt are a crime, and the Turkish authorities deporting a man whose life and safety are threatened is a crime.

According to the Egyptian state, Mohammed is considered a terrorist who is accused of participating with a hundred others in the assassination of an Egyptian official who received a death sentence in a mass trial along with all other defendants. However, anyone who is following and is aware of the tragic crisis in Egypt since the military coup in 2013 knows that fabricated accusations in unfair trials are far more common than anything otherwise.

it is very important to understand these verdicts in the light of the political atmosphere in Egypt after the military coup and the extremely harsh crackdown on dissent since then.

Mohamed's story is one of a thousand other stories for young Egyptian men victims of the bloody unjust military coup and corrupt judiciary system. On top of that very few countries open their doors to Egyptian runaways as refugees or asylum seekers. 

Abdurrahman Abu Elela maybe deported to Egypt from Turkey

Another victim who may face deportation from Turkey to Egypt soon whom we became acquainted with recently is Abdurrahman Abu Elela, a young Egyptian man who arrived to Turkey several months ago to seek asylum only to be detained inside the Turkish airport in Ankara but was sent to a border immigration prison in the past few days and is currently on a hunger-strike. 

These are just two examples with very limited reporting on Egyptian runaways who are seeking asylum and are being detained and deported instead of being supported.

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