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Mabrouk! The Mahalla 3 are home with their families
I couldn’t blog about it earlier, since I was outside the house.. Our three comrades (Kamal el-Fayoumi, Tarek Amin and Kareem el-Beheiri) have arrived safely in their homes after they were released from State Security Police’s custody.
We still have Muhammad Maree, James Buck’s translator, left behind still in prison, together with a number of Mahalla citizens. Maree was transferred yesterday, according to a phone call from Socialist lawyer Ahmad Ezzat and a blog posting by Buck, to the Mansoura Prison, where he’ll be allowed to take the rest of his university exams. Muhammad already missed at least one, thanks to the detention decree by General Habib el-Adly, Mubarak’s Torturer-In-Chief.
UPDATE: More details about the released detainees at the HMLC blog.
Mahalla labor leaders to be released!
Good news from Egypt:
The interior minister, the one who in the first place ordered the detention of the Mahalla labor organizers under the martial law, has just ordered their release!
The Mahalla 3 in addition to a detained dentist (Ibarahim el-Yamani) have been transferred from the Bourg el-Arab Prison, to el-Gharbeia Province Security Directorate, and according to a Socialist activist they are currently in Tanta’s State Security Police HQ, pending their release.