Thursday
15May2008
Mohamed Maree tortured تعذيب المترجم محمد مرعي
Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 9:08AM
No updates on Mohamed Maree, the detained translator of James Buck... He's still in custody. The latest information we have on Mohamed was by rights lawyers who visited Bourg el-Arab Prison on Saturday:
If you are in the Bay Area, please contact Mubarak's Consulate in SF to express your disgust...
We managed to visit Bourg el-Arab Prison today. It turned out that translator Mohamed Saleh Maree is detained as a 'criminal' after he was detained in the company of US journalist James Buck. The latter was released by the police in Mahalla after pressures from his embassy, but Mohamed Saleh was kept in custody despite a release order from the prosecutor. We couldn't back then find out where he was kept. Today we visited him, and he mentioned he was tortured by beatings and electric shocks in Mahalla's State Security office. Mohamed was also banned by the prison administration from taking his exam at the university.
If you are in the Bay Area, please contact Mubarak's Consulate in SF to express your disgust...
Press Sec: Attiya Shakran
Tel: (415) 346-3427
email: attiyashakran@hotmail.com
Cell (415) 548-0556
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[...] Hamalawy also reports that Mohamed Maree, a translator who was arrested along with American photojournalist James Buck, while interviewing the families of those arrested in Mahalla, has been tortured. While Buck was released and asked to leave the country, Maree continues to languish in prison, despite an outcry from activists for his release. Hamalawy writes: The latest information we have on Mohamed was by rights lawyers who visited Bourg el-Arab Prison on Saturday: [...]