An Urgent Appeal to the president of Egypt, Mr. Husni Mubarak

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An Urgent Appeal to the president of Egypt, Mr. Husni Mubarak,

Warm greeting,

We have badly received the news about the detention of the journalist, Ibrahim Al-Sahari, on the 14th of April 2003, and the detention of a number of Egyptian youth for opposing the war against Iraq.

These arrests were set by the Egyptian authorities against the citizens, the journalists, the high educated and the human rights activists since the beginning of the American war against Iraq and its people. It has been said that those detainees have been subjected to torture, sometimes using Electrical shocks without questioning the torturers.

Detaining the journalists and practicing torture against them, because of their opinions, is a violation for the International Declaration of Human Rights and for the freedom of speech. It is a violation for all the international conventions, particularly opposing torture convention.

Mr. President,

The American occupation for Iraq, the destruction of its culture and the detaining of its people in the allied detention camps is an aggression to the whole nation, an aggression that will aim at all the countries in the region, even those that have good relations with The United States of America.

Thus, Khiam Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture appeals for your honesty to cease the detention operations and the restrictions against those who oppose the American war in Egypt, to release immediately all the detainees, to take legal action against the torturers and to declare the place of the Journalist, Ibrahim Al-Sahari.