I’ve just received news from a Socialist source in Cairo saying detained Ghazl el-Mahalla hunger strikers Kamal el-Foyumi and Tarek Amin were also transferred to the Bourg el-Arab prison hospital after their health deteriorated.
I still don’t have more details about when exactly were they transferred, but their health (and Kareem‘s who was transferred earlier) is in a critical condition.
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.
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.
