Thursday, August 26, 2004

Scary : Form Victim to Spy

Two girls went on vacation to sharm el shiekh and since it is a nice place "Mickey mouse Egypt" enjoyed it very much...So when an Egyptian with a "service company" offered them to stay on and get them visas for a mere 300 USD so that they could work they of course accepted especially that he offered for them to work for him awaiting the visa procedures to be finished...

Everything went fine until pay day came...at this point Mohamed did not want to pay them for the month work and did not get them the visas which they had paid for.

The two girls obviously felt they had been tricked twice and told him that if he did not pay up they would press charges against him...

Luckily their visas had not yet expired they were allowed by international law 2 weeks over the visa limit date...

But suddenly they were taken in by the Egyptian State Security and questioned...all seemed fine but then came an order directly from cairo to transfer them to the "khalifa detention center" which is basically the place where people are detained before expulsion from Egypt.

The same day they were sent to Cairo...when lawyers got involved and the authorities were asked why they were being detained they first said because they had no passports but when the lawyer said this was irrelevant because the visa procedure had been initiated and the authorities had copies of their passport it was then said but not written that it was because they were caught try to cross to Israel!!! a total lie of course!!!

At that point the lawyers started being scared that they were in any way tied to Israel which in Egypt could mean up to 15 years in jail!!!

Finally someone paid for their tickets and there was a deal made to release them ASAP since the tickets were paid for which was done which was definitely better then staying in a 5m X 5m cell with 20 other girls including prostitutes and Sudanese refugees.

Great publicity stunt for Egypt and way to go for Justice!!!

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