The Press Syndicate’s Liberties Committee has called for a protest in solidarity with the detained Mahalla labor leaders (Kamal el-Fayoumi, Kareem el-Beheiri, Tarek Amin), Saturday 17 May, 6pm, in front of the Press Syndicate.
Tag: 6 april 2008
Released detainees speak of torture in Mubarak’s Gulag
In an interview with El-Badeel, released Karama Party activist Ahmad Amin Ahmad Eid said that:
Kareem el-Beheiri was tortured in Mahalla’s State Security Police office for more than 18 hours. He told me his torturer was listening to the Quran while torturing him. I saw in Mahalla’s 2nd Police Station children no more than 13 years old, whose eyes and bodies were injured by rubber bullets. They said police kidnapped them from the hospital where they were receiving treatment and accused them of participating in the strike.
Muhammad Maree tortured
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