Reda Helal
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Reda Helal was an Egyptian journalist, who was deputy editor of Al-Ahram newspaper until Monday 11 August 2003, when he disappeared from the public sight.
He was a political activist in some sense, and a founding member of CPS Cairo Peace Society (CPS), a Copenhagen Declaration support group, which has been a public concern since his disappearence.
Disappeared on Monday 11th August 2003 when he went back from the newspaper's office to his home in Kasr El Aini hospital street in downtown Cairo, though this street is one of the most secured streets in the Egyptian capital (for the huge number of police officials and secret service spies distributed in it, as it is the location of the Arab League headquarters, Egyptian Foreign Ministry,American Embassy, and the Egyptian Museum). Helal's family presented a complaint about his kidnapping on Monday 11th August 2003 to Sayyeda Zeinab police station. Human rights groups and activists and a number of journalists pointed the incident to the government.
[edit] References
- Website created for search of Reda Helal
- The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) (20/6/2005) report "Egyptian journalists .. Fettered pens, continued prosecution and sexual assault"
- U.S. Department of State Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2005 - Egypt - March 2006
- Example of his views on Arab regimes and the need for 'Regime change'
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