Feds must escalate case of Canadian held in notorious Egyptian prison: ex-prisoner
Federal Government Must Escalate Case Of Yasser Ahmed Albaz, Canadian Held In Notorious Tora Prison: Ex-PrisonerBy Mohamed OmarAmal Ahmed Albaz says she has not heard from her father ever since he was detained in Egypt on Feb. 18.
"The lawyer himself is very shocked," she said."He said this makes absolutely no sense. He has no idea why this is happening as well."It feels like a nightmare that we're not waking up from.The lawyer told them Yasser has not been charged with anything but that he was being detained and taken to Egypt's Tora prison complex, a notorious facility often used to detain political prisoners.
Albaz said her father, an Oakville, Ont.-based engineer who regularly travels for work, regularly enters and leaves Egypt with no hassle. The family was there last summer for her sister's engagement party. "When I hear that nobody's been allowed to see Yasser for a week, I can virtually guarantee you I know exactly what happened there, because that's what happened with us, that's what happened before us, that's what happened after us," he told HuffPost.Loubani said on the first day of his detention he and other inmates were made to wait in a van in the scorching mid-August heat.
"When we left, we left 50 days in, nobody had yet been charged," Loubani said, adding that the time they spent in Tora was an"investigation period," which is how authorities justified not laying any charges."That's why it was so key for us to get out before we were charged, because if we were charged then you're part of this kind of Kafkaesque, brutal system. There's not much that you can really do to interrupt it.
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