Egyptian Blogger Freed from Prison

Jon Popham June 3, 2008 | 7:32 pm EST

Egyptian Blogger Karim el-Beheiri was freed from an Egyptian jail Sunday after weeks of imprisonment. El-Beheiri was locked for protesting price hikes and salary cuts at a factory in the industrial city of El-Mahalla El-Kubra in the Nile Delta along with fellow protesters Tarek Amin and Kamal al-Fayoumy.

While incarcerated el-Beheiri says the trio were subjected to weeks of torture. “We were subjected to electric shocks, to beatings and there was no food and or drink for the first few days,” he told Agence France Press one day after his release.

An Egyptian government official from the Ministry of the Interior denied the torture claims, saying “These are false accusations. Everything took place within a framework of human rights.”

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Kuwait Times (AFP): Egyptian blogger freed after “weeks of torture”

Ground Report: Blogger Karim el-Beheiri Freed After Weeks of Torture

Topix: Freed Egyptian Blogger Alleges Torture in Prison