An Egyptian blogger, Karim el-Beheiri, who was arrested with two former co-workers from Mahalla’s Misr Spinning and Weaving company (all three were fired after their arrest) on April 6 and released Sunday, said he and his colleagues were shocked, beaten and denied sustenance during their ordeal behind bars.
AFP via Breitbart.com:
“Many of us had never seen the inside of a prison before,” Beheiri said, describing his first weeks at Borg al-Arab prison near the Mediterranean city of Alexandria sharing a small cell with 25 people as “terrifying.”
“We had bread thrown at us. They would dip their hands in our food before throwing it at us,” said Beheiri who, with the others, mounted two hunger strikes while in detention.
On April 16, the prosecution ordered the release of several detainees including Beheiri [and his two colleagues], but the three remained behind bars until Sunday.
Beheiri said that during interrogations at state security headquarters in various Egyptian cities, questioning focused mainly on his blog and his connections to other bloggers.
“It’s the new fashion,” he said of a large-scale crackdown against Egypt’s cyber dissidents.
He said the first thing he wanted to do when he got home after the release was to blog the events.
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By John Hanks, June 4 at 9:35 am #
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Force and fraud are the name of the game. Egypt is ruled by both. America is ruled by both. The proportions are different. Egypt resorts to force because it is having trouble with fraud. America uses fraud because it doesn’t need force.
Smarts means people have to stop being crooks, suckers, and above all lazy cowards. They have to have emotional, intellectual and even physical guts. Every symbol, slogan and “ism” hides mostly a bunch of crooks. Islam, Christianity, Judaism, etc. are just the most prominent examples.
Report thisBy nefertiti, June 3 at 11:27 pm #
And America still calls the Thug Mubarak (commonly known in the Arab blogging sphere as the Laughing cow ) as ALLY and friend . they still provide him with arms and bribe him like a W.. with millions of dollars a year (so he remains a guard dog for Israel )
Report thisIF America truly cared about democracy and human rights in the MidDle East , it would shun those dictatorships starting with Saudi arabia , jordan , Kuwait , egypt and put enough pressure on them until they reformed . if those countries were isolated , they would reform . But unfortunately the US embassies in those Arab countries provide enough intelligence to the dictators , provide them training , sell them arms , give them even training (they call it national security training ) against their own people , should they decide to overthrow those sick backward repressive regimes .
Even the NGOS in those countries do enough snooping to benefit the dictators . So , we have stopped believing that America really want Democracy in the Arab world .
My dream is to see every Arab regime toppled by its own people in a peaceful manner , and honest elections are held and those in power have a national agenda and put the citizens interests FIRST before America’s Yes i know , it is nice to dream .
By John Hanks, June 2 at 6:51 pm #
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but it is not a moral actor. It is just a bunch of crooks, suckers, and lazy cowards.
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