Mohamed Soltan Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/mohamed-soltan/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 31 May 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Mohamed Soltan Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/mohamed-soltan/ 32 32 Zuma pressed to secure release of South African held in Egypt https://jjcornish.com/2015/06/zuma-pressed-to-secure-release-of-south-african-held-in-egypt/ Sun, 31 May 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/06/zuma-pressed-to-secure-release-of-south-african-held-in-egypt/ President Jacob Zuma has been called to press Egyptian authorities to release a 64-year-old dual South African Egyptian national they’ve been holding since last December. According to Islamic pressure group, Media Review Network the man who’s been held without charge suffers from a number of medical conditions including diabetes. Abdu Salaam Jad Bassiouni,architect son Bilal […]

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]]> President Jacob Zuma has been called to press Egyptian authorities to release a 64-year-old dual South African Egyptian national they’ve been holding since last December.

According to Islamic pressure group, Media Review Network the man who’s been held without charge suffers from a number of medical conditions including diabetes.

Abdu Salaam Jad Bassiouni,architect son Bilal was arrested with him at Cairo airport last December.

Bilal, who was released within 24 hours, headed home to Johannesburg from where he’s been spearheading the campaign for his father’s release.
They’re hoping President Jacob Zuma will apply similar pressure to the government of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi as US President Barak Obama has done to secure the release of joint American-Egyptian citizen Mohamed Soltan, who was serving a life sentence after being shot in a protest following the coup that ousted Mohamed Moursi.

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