Malaysia arrests Egyptian student expressed solidarity with Gaza by writing slogans on his country’s embassy wall

SANAA, Aug. 05 (YPA) – Malaysian authorities arrested Egyptian student Marwan Mohamed Magdy, a resident of Malaysia and an aeronautical engineering student at UPM University, after he wrote slogans in support of Gaza and against the Israeli occupation’s siege on the walls of the Egyptian embassy in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, on Tuesday.

Human rights sources confirmed that the student may be brought before the Malaysian prosecution within days, amid growing concern that he could be deported to Egypt based on an unannounced request from the Egyptian embassy, where he may face serious security charges and “may put his life in danger,” according to what his friends reported.

This incident comes in the context of an escalating global solidarity campaign against the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip and the almost complete closure of the Rafah land crossing on the Egyptian side, which has exacerbated the suffering of the population and exposed the Strip to a famine that has nearly killed them.