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slipping into civil war and the government claims it's fighting to protect its people from a foreign funded insurgency saying mercenary death squads. that's it for me in the news team for the moment we'll be back with more news for in half an hour from now in the meantime as promised joining us out of the small screen with the latest edition of his interview program here on r.t. with a focus on the arab spring this time around. i'm julian a song writer strikes. editor of wiki leaks expose the world secrets these documents belong the united states government being attacked by the powerful united states strongly condemned what action why he broke the law illegally shoot the son

of a full five hundred days now i've been detained without charge but that hasn't stopped us. today we're on a quest for revolutionary ideas that can change the world tomorrow is the arab spring the enactment of a dream or is it an impossible fantasy this week i cut through the spin and speak directly to two leading revolutionaries from cairo i speak to writer and activist abdel fattah imprisoned and now banned from travel he has become the icon of a revolution betrayed joining me under house arrest is now below regine the director of the brain center for human rights and one of the most important figures in the bahraini uprising i want to ask them about the revolutions across the middle east how they've been successful crushed captured or concealed and what motivates them to continue to put their lives on the line. up.

you see me and we have here. a good segment we were worried about you know. yeah yeah he is out now but not for long and none of us are out for long maybe you know. so what happened in the past couple of weeks when we called you to try and get you over here i mean you're in jail for well i mean yeah i was in i was just detained for almost half a day and did not before that month i was beaten up in this city few months ago it was kidnapped from my home by masked security persons and taken turn on a place of blindfolded and handcuffed and i was tortured then i was thrown back home when i said in my twitter account that i'm going to meet julian assange and i'm going to just speak to him in a t.v.

program and last night my house was surrounded by almost one hundred policemen and . machine guns. and they realized that i was not at home didn't they just. ask my family to tell me to come to the public prosecutor today at four o'clock where i am here so you are here that i got here and i received that when i was last night and i think i went but i mean what is what are you going to do or i'm going to go back i mean i have to face i mean it's not the first time but this is the struggle this is the freedom this is democracy that we are fighting for has a cost and that we have to pay the cost and the cost might be very expensive as we have been the high cost in bahrain and i'm willing to bet that for the changes that we are fighting for. and a lot where you act legally are you are you in the clear no. no. i am still pending prosecution the case is under investigation i banned from

travel and accused of murder. of public property namely military apc's. stealing military weapons. inciting illegal assembly for the purpose of terrorism. so i am basically accused of beating the hell out of a couple of platoons that weapons and little killing go you are alleged to be a very naughty boy. and a superman or people been doing stuff that would be impossible for. confronting apc's on my own and so on and i have witnesses that the prosecution witnesses have testified to me being in two places at the same time yet i'm still being investigated so i'm obviously capable of you know many superpowers but which is pretty awesome. i had

a good reputation and street cred in prison you know people go to prison because they steal cars but i'm being accused of stealing. how do you how do you think you're. particularly interested in just the idea that they want to use courts as a tool against activists and as illegitimate do you know it's not enough to be able to beat the hell out of them and some have to be able to keep people in fact even when they do targeted killings like we think the killings they're targeting people who are very crucial on the ground but they're not we'll known so they are stuck with this you know the famous act was the limit what do you do about them and i think they are trying to build a legitimacy for using the courts against us and it keeps backfiring but the they are biting the time they mean so that's why the case is still on and that's why i'm still accused maybe they'll eventually manage to tarnish my image enough and they are working on it i'm. accused of holding prove views for instance and. which again you know street cred what's the current status what's the state of

play in bahrain right now i was a different three different status. in tunisia complete revolution complete overthrow of the regime complete and you. well it's then you have egypt and. then you have egypt which is halfway revolution. not yet completed me and desist him and the regime still exist then you have been behind the videos and still exist and walking and did not yet achieve anything but the revolution is a stood in the process. of continuing thirty years. many people were killed in terms of percentage much more than people lost in tunisia and egypt unfortunately we had a new region all by families dictators. tenth of a couple of hundred of years but there is strength comes from the wealth from the

american support from the armies they have and from not legitimately from people not either not legitimately from people but those are really al it is that their ruling us and we can't change in because nobody wants to talk about. what's what's the present state of play in egypt you know you. would basically you know these thing was quite surprising that you know that mubarak would fall that quickly the price was high but we thought it would be much higher and so on so what's happening in egypt is that what we expected should happen like i mean we would have expected that. something that would stretch. over a year. so that year that didn't happen with mubarak is happening with the military and people after an initial moment of thinking you know that the military might just decide to. retain its unity and status by not engaging

and not that they're protecting the regime is actually the meta the is the quote of the regimes that are you sure now is against military rule the revolutionary groups in brain and the people who supported these protest movements embrace being well dapo. too scared to act. who's left to still be pushing forward while still a lot of people who have i mean i would be surprised or you should not be surprised to see half of the bahraini population coming out and want to protest it's still happening it's not happening in any of the revolution what not of the revolution we had in the history in the past fifty years you would see fifty percent of the population out in the street and want to protest but you will see in bahrain unfortunately because of the double standards of many countries because of the double standard of many. channels like just like arab media like other

european channels that they don't highlight this but this is the reality why doesn't al-jazeera just you know where positive in egypt they were positive in tunisia in fact they're just era where a sign for anybody who should in the arab world if it is a credible revolution or not for just don't cover those revolution musically but but when it comes to bahrain i just you know we're quite i'm talking about the other because you are not the english language completely doing this was all right wasn't it still said to them and they were ok the other week when they were complete silence in fact in many areas they've taken the side of the government why why because they're all from a seven similar ruling family under similar region and democracy in bahrain means it's going to have an impact of qatar it's going to have impact in saudi arabia which has the arab we have t.v. channel so why did saudis troops into into bahrain and that's really i mean and this is something the whole world has to speak out and have to condemn to what

happened but we see in the invasion of saudis to my country with complete silence now the same government sending troops to leave. to fight their g.m. and now that i give this to syria and i said which they have to be maybe but when it comes to bahrain they will complete silence was always in the floorboard where they scared. of the sheer act of us here in bahrain spreading into saudi no because it does our very influential united states in europe have. the for the interest of united states for the interest of the many european countries for the autumn save for the different of the all year for their mutual interest which many countries seen it as more priority than the human rights of the bahraini for example this image united states which ask a question not the same for syria they are sitting on so what i mean is that is

that meant by did a president to defend medic and the president even though you might consul saying that he would not talk about behind decision because behind his improving itself and it did doing better where the people that as i'm talking to you a few hours ago one man died because of tear gas we have daily basis people are dying it is iran fueling the really forces this is what i want government saying this is what the americans maybe try to buy that but that does not know of none of their division in the group did i read a cable at the time of the bahraini protests about eight months ago. and this us cable which we have published says that the bahraini government offices came into the us embassy and they said look iran is behind these calls for human rights in bahrain and it is it is funneling money and weapons into the iranian resistance and then the u.s. ambassador writing back to washington said that he saw no evidence that that was

true but they keep claiming this this one here i mean this but years they had never similar to that at least one cable that was about me where one of the government agent goes down attic an embassy says that may be eligible for receiving funds from the iranian government in the americans. said department thats it. not true they've got nothing to support that do you think this fear mongering about iran is the is the primary reason why the west is not so i'm all they want they're behaving as stable as if the fee based on the high end they want to be very quite unstable losing been. losing mubarak in egypt and going to saudis very much you know that there was a telephone call it where they had a fight. with obama and when it comes to behind this is the last thing the saudis want to see an evolution on behind few miles from their border which means going to have impact niggas in saudi arabia that's why saudi cinda troops about having to

take part in the crackdown and killing people detaining people and did the if they can but part of that bloody crackdown would be complete silence all from the international community yes i would you don't want democracy years cut out of would she want to promote democracy in syria and other parts of the world but they don't want democracy in qatar and you have to ask people you have to cheer but what you have to share with those government will not accept that to happen. yes i may remember jury during the heat of the egyptian revolution tsui man the head of domestic intelligence in egypt was proposed by joseph biden by the state department by hillary clinton to be a sort of replacement figure for mubarak

a compromise figure and we released many cables about him and his position in relation to israel and relationship i states and being a sort of torture in chief but very quickly after it was an apparent that it was not going to succeed. you saw hillary clinton turn around and start to praise. the egyptian revolution and say that in fact the egyptian and tunis revolutions were because of two great american companies twitter and facebook. you must. try to time again we have to be allies that there's a there's a battle for the narrative. in that evolution there were lucian's about its ideas as much as they are about you know buddies in the streets and bullets and so

on and the most improved aspect of this method of narrative is to try and that is down that evolution to being about. that doesn't mean that the facebook youth did not play an important role in that if we use and they did but the thing is if you. there was circle around you know as a side of the revolution and say this is the true evolution everybody else is not for you and then you play on everything you play on class you play on. how much people are willing to use violence to defend themselves to isolate you know what evolutionary forces from each other so they in so the well off with highly educated internet connected youth lead an important role in that if we usually and they were for a very tactical reasons they were the symbols of the revolution because you needed the whole world to love the egyptian revolution so you also had this great woodstock like party and creed without the drugs and sex but you know you had this

wonderful. you know amazing and very inspiring it's a very you feel there's no aspect of you know a fantasy about the party into your square but if you tell the story you know that's why it's about that is within the story of the egyptian revolution as these wonderful kids good looking well connected kids being into her years then you ignoring the would because you ignoring the street battles you ignoring how much we had to use violence in defense you know we were not sticking to the script that people outside of the revolution think that it was going on sue hillary was not just pushing to come american companies she was pushing and that it is that is designed to stop that evolution to make sure that it doesn't go deeper than mubarak . you wrote. this square is a legend that would fall if the families of martyrs stopped to believe in it the dream is the alternative to the regime if we let go of it for realistic rationally

committed to bates that follow the right order would perish leave the experts behind and listen to the poets but we are in a revolution but go of the mind and hold on to the dream but we are in a revolution before the course and embrace of the unknown for we are in a revolution so abrade them out of ideas single story spectacles and dreams nothing is real but their blood and nothing is guaranteed but the turn of that part of the revolution in egypt has now finished the square but is the dream finished there is no articulation of what that dream is it's certainly not a boarding quest in the present democracy where's your nation could go in a war. like the u.k. went without the consent of the populace when. electing the president who

promised hope is almost exactly the same as in a king the president who didn't promise hope as happened in the u.s. . you know. the dream is. the dream is what makes you work and this is easily and the dream is what makes this is a democracy that doesn't give rise to the party would street and occupy london and greek riots and so on. but it's still very much it's still very strong and it still lives there but it is not. it has not been articulated we don't have a cd we don't have it so the dream you see it. in moments when you can become political like i managed to do in that article the diem you see in the graffiti and that's why it's been very much tied to the in and to the marchers i mean we don't just see them as people who died they are immortal. and it is not

in their sacrifice but it is in how we see their sacrifice and how we express this activists and how we keep their memory living that we touch what the dream is but i cannot tell you what it is exactly and it is in moments of battles actually that i almost can't touch it like that when we have when we are battling the police there are always these moments of cease fires that don't last for very long i think they're usually the police are feeling the i mean ition and so on and when the police stops fighting we stop to medically but in these moments you know you find that people have food food circles you've got fires all over the place because there's you know fires you know people have been using one of the cookies or something like that so these fires become actually like one fire people are sitting around the t.v. suddenly you know street musicians come up out of the blue and you know the people are drinking tea and singing together and so there is

a post modern state that we are trying to reach and we don't know what it is exactly but this is why we're having it evolution and not just an orderly reform and this is why it doesn't actually matter what the u.s. government once and what is doing and so on because it's about something that's much deeper and i don't know if we're going to win it this time and i don't know if we're going to win it in my lifetime but it's enough that i that i you know on an almost weekly basis that i get moments where i can almost touch. i think we're in the end of two thousand and ten with as easy. wave have started tsunami and i think it's going to have it's going to change the whole region maybe in very few years the whole region going to change those smart government in the region. which is going to reform themselves fast and those government who will resist changes i think the tsunami will move them remove them from their seats

those government in the united states or european governments who have who built their relation with their interest. long strategy interests with those dictators i think they're going to lose a lot those government who are smart enough to have a relation with the people rather than those dictators i think those would benefit changes i'm very optimistic that change is going to happen in our region positive changes in these moments. where they're in prison or you're in a situation of being held and. beat and. when you have to maximize selection you do not have control of your physical space you don't have control of your body someone else has your body and you are not at liberty in the most fundamental sense of the word. what do you what do you think about. how

do you try to control your feelings to see you through this like i think if you have a goal if you believed in the just or fewer of your struggle you will come you would overcome those difficulties and you know that changes that you are fighting for to being there for hundreds of years is not an easy thing to change. to achieve those changes you have to be willing to pay a price and might that price might be your life and i'm sure those people hitting the movement in the arab world of that type of people who are willing to live to achieve those changes yeah prison sucks man. and it's like this last i mean this is my second time to be. to go to prison. and.

my fight was this time that i was facing a military prosecutor the knife used to recognize the legitimacy of the military justice system and so i was sent eventually and we managed to win this major victory and i was sent to a proper measures street and then he still kept me in detention and so there was this moment when i was completely collapsing completely collapsing and i really wanted to be out and attend the birth of my first son. and i couldn't because of that and so i collapsed and then he was born and three hours leaders my family managed to send me photos of him. and it didn't matter at that moment it just didn't matter that it would end soon so it's always been it's always been the experience of being surrounded by love. on a very personal level but also in solidarity you know. i've been privileged and lucky enough that when i go to prison there's

a massive massive sort of that if he if he would in the world and it's usually over a very personal fashion and you know the support that you had only when you were. mostly through family visits so it is an isolation that i that i would be able to handle and it isn't being put with dangerous criminals in a very crowded cell that they wouldn't be have able to handle but if i was prevented from visits then i don't know how it be able to handle that. that's yeah don't tell them. you're a father try after your father to. you know you tell your children to grow up to be an actress like you and me didn't happen but in prison beaten up you don't have to tell them just by default it's going to happen and they're learned by example yeah i mean my son my daughter now of each protest i

just moved in from school because they would have asked this same school from the children of members of. the ruling family and they are paying high prices maybe higher than me because i'm doing my fight and struggle and i'm ready for the reaction but they started growing up seeing the reaction for reason they don't know why be in their house being. raided at midnight their father has been removed from bed and beaten in the front of. their houses been tear gassed maybe more than twenty times in the past one year. they've seen things normal children they did not see their life but they have learnt a lot that much all the dandiya age. when the whole of my daughter she's nine years old and my son just become fourteen years of age i mean he used to take part

with me in each and every protest since he was five years old. and so my daughter she never liked the human right and politics and nothing like that but since i was kidnapped and beaten in front of her she become a radical. and activist and my wife also she's very quiet woman but she's an activist i think the whole family become activist we are almost more than a thousand members you can hope but yeah the family and i mean i think many of them become activists the whole nation the revolution have made the whole nation activist imagine buying government stop journalists to get into the country stop the human rights organization to get into the country but most of the people young people become journalists become human rights activists become bloggers becomes internet market opportunity to thank god government of bahrain have made such a young movement which is i think we're going to benefit and the whole arab world

will benefit from them and their own revolution as well. you know your son is going to grow up into the new egypt. i had just this thought that like now i need to bring my ring up my son to heat food. in order for him to be to avoid being killed and then i remembered i named him after. the who is victim of police tortured he died and his then men who died in alexandria two years ago prior to the revolution but his face as a symbol for the revolution and he did nothing there was you know there was there's no way i can protect him it's there's no point in telling in raising my son. to avoid being an activist or even to be cruel he would anything like that because it doesn't matter when you have repression the violence is what end.

that it's going to affect you anyway the injustice is so what and that is going to fix you and you cannot get in. you know a good life for your child and this you getting to the other child and so does that it's not in my hands i can't even do anything about it. well. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've to.