No updates on Muhammad Maree, the detained translator of James Buck. He’s still in custody. The latest information we have on Muhammad was by rights lawyers who visited Bourg el-Arab Prison on Saturday:
We managed to visit Bourg el-Arab Prison today. It turned out that translator Muhammad Saleh Maree is detained as a ‘criminal’ after he was detained in the company of US journalist James Buck. The latter was released by the police in Mahalla after pressures from his embassy, but Muhammad Saleh was kept in custody despite a release order from the prosecutor. We couldn’t back then find out where he was kept. Today we visited him, and he mentioned he was tortured by beatings and electric shocks in Mahalla’s State Security office. Muhammad was also banned by the prison administration from taking his exam at the university.
If you are in the Bay Area, please contact Mubarak’s Consulate in SF to express your disgust:
Press Sec: Attiya Shakran
Tel: (415) 346-3427
email: attiyashakran@hotmail.com
Cell (415) 548-0556