⚫️ Years of oppression and injustice… A painful message from the son of Professor Ibrahim Metwally
The son of Professor Ibrahim Metwally, the lawyer, wrote poignant words that encapsulate long years of oppression and persecution endured by both father and son, in a message filled with the pain of loss and betrayal, in which he said:
“Dear father…
I hope you are well and in good health… I know that difficulties surround your path, and that continuing life in this manner is frightening and terrifying, for it is not easy for us to be separated by days and years for such a long time.
I have reached the age of thirty; we lived together for twenty warm years, during which my heart was filled with a mixture of love, tenderness, compassion, and learning.
Your reputation among people elevates my stature, and I am proud and joyful to be your son… Father, as I love to call you, you are the master of my heart.
They found no crime against you except that you demanded your constitutional rights, and sought to know the fate of my brother Amr, yet I found nothing in the papers but chaos, neglect of your illness and complaints due to your detention conditions, deprivation of visitation, and solitary confinement.
The chaos increased when you were falsely accused of holding organizational meetings inside your detention, despite being held in solitary confinement and deprived of visitation.
As a great legal scholar who taught law to generations, your end came through a legal system that did not deliver justice for you or for my brother, despite the presence of witnesses to the incident of his arrest and enforced disappearance.
These crimes will not be subject to statute of limitations, and the bitter truth remains that we have seen nothing of justice but betrayal.”
The Al-Shehab Center for Human Rights affirms that what Professor Ibrahim Metwally has endured represents a stark example of the suffering of human rights defenders and the families of the forcibly disappeared, emphasizing that demanding rights is not a crime, and that these violations will not be erased with the passage of time.
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