CAIRO - Two Canadian academics arrested in Cairo en route to a Gaza Strip hospital in mid-August began a hunger strike on Monday to protest their month-long detention without charges.
Tarek Loubani, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Western University, in Ontario, and John Greyson, an associate professor of film at York University, in Toronto, have been detained since August 16 and held at the Tora prison in Maadi, as previously reported in Al Fanar. That is the same prison where Hosni Mubarak was detained and where many Muslim Brotherhood supporters and suspected sympathizers are now held.
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