Though they are kept in the “Political Prisoners” section in Bourg el-Arab Prison, I learned that Muhammad Maree and Mossa’d Abul Fagr are sharing a cell with arms dealer, and another three men involved in smuggling immigrants.. Three days a disagreement in the cell ended up with the four “criminals” threatening to assault Maree and Abul Fagr. The two are requesting from the prison authorities to be moved to another cell devoted for political prisoners solely.
Tag: prisons
Anti-Torture dissent sweeps Egyptian prisons
Check this posting by the Torture In Egypt blog.
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.