Above photo: Omar Soltan in front of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. Photo by Robert Brune, DC Media Group.
This video features Omar Soltan, the brother of Mohamed Soltan, a journalist, translator and aid to groups such as al-Jazeera who was jailed after the Muslim Brotherhood uprising in Egypt this past Summer.
On this day, protesters rallied at the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington, D.C. because the US Sec. of State John Kerry and business leaders were to meet with the Egyptian Foreign Minister of Affairs. The protesters called for the release of Mohamed.
As of this interview with Omar Soltan will have been on a hunger strike for 92 days. Despite Mohamed being the son of a well known Muslim Brotherhood figure, he remains in confinement. Friends and family maintain that Mohamed was not an advocate of violence. He is described as “a peaceful person and strongly committed to non-violence and social justice” on the Facebook support page.
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