A candlelit vigil for Ibrahim Halawa will take place at 6.30pm outside Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
Last month, the trial of Mr Halawa, 21, who is in poor health, was postponed for the twentieth time in Egypt and his family .
Free Ibrahim Halawa (Facebook)
Meanwhile…
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has written to the Egyptian president requesting the release of Ibrahim Halawa on humanitarian grounds.
Mr Kenny was responding to Richard Boyd Barrett of Solidarity-People Before Profit and the Fianna Fáil’s Dara O’Brien, who expressed concern in the Dáil over Mr Halawa’s health.
Mr Kenny said an Irish doctor visited Mr Halawa in Egypt last week and supervised a medical examination which was conducted by an Egyptian doctor.
The Taoiseach said it was not appropriate to comment on his condition as medical records were confidential. However, he said the doctor recommended that a special medical evaluation take place and that Mr Halawa returns to Ireland on humanitarian grounds for that assessment.
Kenny requests Ibrahim Halawa’s release on humanitarian grounds (RTÉ)
Good to know I can go to foreign country, since he’s “irish” Egypt would be foreign, break the law and then have Tds fight for me.
Yes, if a dictatorship unjustly locks you up, ourr government will campaign for your release after 3 or so years. Even earlier if you’re lucky enough to have been born white.
Is it because he’s Muslim?
Pat Hickey was a different story though wasn’t he?
You mean good to know if you were held indefinitely without a trial in poor conditions your government would quite rightly stand up for you.
Regardless of what he did or didn’t do, he’s an Irish citizen who has been held without trial for far too long.
We would be negligent towards our own citizens if we did nothing.
took your feckin time writing that letter, enda!! jaysus
His Belvedere Bond has fallen down behind the cabinet beside the Moriarty Report.
He definitely needs to go to trial, Egypt is one scary country..
We need to focus all our legal and diplomatic nous on making sure Apple don’t pay us 13 billion, this can’t be a priority.
He’s on the longest hunger strike in the history of the world.
No need for candles. It’s not dark at 6.30pm.
And as I drew closer I could hear the song they sang,
“This is your country too!
Join our procession
That’s marching onwards to war”
Anyone, Irish or otherwise, who has anything to do with the Muslim Brotherhood deserves nothing but contempt. He’s also made a mockery out of hunger striking. No wonder no one takes him seriously.
…when Egypt embraced democracy they elected the Muslim Brotherhood but the zionists and yanks were having none of this so they precipitated regime change…Ibrahim was on the wrong side, in the wrong place at the wrong time…Charlie Flanagan would be better appealling to his ‘friends of israel’ up in the US embassy than that puppet Sisi…
Egypt embraced democracy, the Muslim Brotherhood responded to this embrace of democracy by attempting to make the president above all judicial authority, rewriting the constitution into making Egypt a Sharia country and gave complete impunity to any attacks on Christians or other minorities.
A piss poor attempt at setting up an Islamic dictatorship, and this is what he was supporting.
Good times.
Sisi won with 97% of the vote. Morsi got 54%. But yeah, he’s obviously anti democracy or whatever.
…you see, that’s the funny thing with democracy…you don’t always get what you want but you do always get what the voters want…Brexit, Trump, Netanyahu, Squee…
Would it just be easier to list everything you don’t think is a zionist conspiracy?
…there used to be a whole division of the hasbara movement on this site…usually the night shift was covered a particularly vitriolic commenter who called herself Judy NYC…you knew where you stood with Judy…the N in her name could not be read as nice…any more than yourself Kieran…
Sorry, I’m a member of the Hasbro movement.
I think Scrabble is just tops.
They certainly have a monopoly on good board games.
…I would have Kieran down as more kerplonker rather than scrabbler from the Hasbro stable…
Well that’s me buckaroo’d! :)
I heard he has a black belt in Twister.
I’m fascinated. Do you really think there is a whole division of hasbara movement manipulating this site?
Have you stopped to think about what that implies about the scale of this hasbara movement?
…back a few years ago when they were carpet bombing Gaza there were as many hasbara apologists on here as there are FG shills today…
It’s a disgrace, what’s happened to him.
That said, he seems like an awful plonker.
Please don’t do the eulogy at my funeral.
The truth shall be heard! I’ll rugby-tackle any fupper who tries to stop me.
If he needs treatement, then I’m sure there are good hospitals in Egypt. Rather than the feeble “he needs to come home” to be examined or to get treatement, why not insist he is examined and gets the treatment locally, under guard, in Egypt. We have had every type of story from the sisters now. Some were:
– hunger strike. That must be a record-breaking one
– wheelchair
– disease
Not to mention letters (different handwriting on some) wanting to come ‘home’ to the green pastures etcetera.
We could do with some real reporting. Why don’t the sisters go out and visit him. Why doesn’t his father – actually why doesn’t his father take as much as interest as his sisters.
Will this candlelight vigil be ‘Ladies on the left, Gentlemen on the right’ like the last vigil.?
@ PiggetedyPoo
You’re very lucky I’m a pacifist, otherwise Imight kick your danglers up and down the street continuously, as you watched. Forever.
Still can’t make sense of your ramblings there memie. You might get more pleasure texting yourself. Giggidy
Graham, your name is not Irish either.
Never said I was Irish never said I will be
None of you business then, is it?
No call for being uncivil lad
I stand corrected I might actally become Irish one day like my late nan was be birth
Being Irish and being an Irish citizen are worlds apart. Anyone can become an Irish citizen. I can live in Waterford for a hundred years but I’ll never, ever be Waterford man.
you maynt be a wateford man but if you live in wateford for hundred years, you will be a fupping annoying man.