State Security police is in full control of the Bourg el-Arab prison, where 17 members of the Muslim Brotherhood are incarcerated.
The detainees are ill-treated. Family visits have been banned.
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Gulag is paradise, says Interior Ministry mouthpiece
The mouthpiece of the Interior Ministry, General Ahmad Diaa, who’s been crusading on TV screens, newspapers, and in the parliament trying desperately to defend his boss General Adly, and the big boss Mubarak, when it comes to police torture and abuse–now is coming up with a rosy picture about the country’s prisons.
The picture was so rosy, that the MB members of parliament present in the parliamentary session, wished they could return to prison to enjoy such five-star treatment.
Letters from Mubarak’s Gulag
Read those two letters written by political detainees from the notorious Abu Zaabal Prison, providing some insight into life in Mubarak’s Gulag that is administered by his criminal butcher Interior Minister General Habib el-Adly.