Tag: prisons

Mabrouk! The Mahalla 3 are home with their families

Posted on By 3arabawy

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.

Detained Mahalla hunger striker’s health deteriorates in prison

Posted on By 3arabawy

TERRIBLE NEWS:

Mahalla labor leader Kamal el-Fayoumi, who’s been on a hunger strike since last Sunday, is vomiting blood in his Bourg el-Arab prison cell.

Kamal has stomach ulcers, and his health is deteriorating amid refusal from the Prison authorities to transfer him to the hospital. Kamal was taken only to the Prison clinic around three hours ago, according to Socialist lawyer Ahmad Ezzat, and then returned to his cell.

Ezzat says Kamal MUST be transferred to hospital asap, but the prison authorities refuse to do anything.