As Egypt sets a date for ousted President Mohamed Morsi to stand trial
for inciting the murder of protesters and the Muslim Brotherhood calls
for mass demonstrations, we speak with two people who witnessed one of
the bloodiest massacres of Morsi supporters by Egyptian state forces.
Acclaimed Toronto filmmaker John Greyson and emergency room medical
doctor Tarek Loubani were in Cairo on August 16, en route to a
humanitarian mission in Gaza, when they went to film a protest and then
rushed to the scene of a massacre — Greyson reportedly began filming the
shooting’s aftermath while Loubani treated some of the injured. Then,
along with 600 Egyptians that day, the pair of Canadians were swept up
and detained without charge. They were held in cockroach-infested jail
cells with as many as 36 other inmates. Greyson and Loubani launched a
hunger strike, while supporters in Canada mounted a massive campaign to
lobby for their release. Then, in early October, the pair were freed.
They have since returned home to Canada, where they continued to call
for the release of their Egyptian cellmates who remain imprisoned. We go
to Toronto, where we are joined by Greyson, who is also a member of
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid. And in Ontario, we’re joined by Tarek
Loubani, an assistant professor at Western University. He is a
Palestinian refugee and one of the architects of the Canada-Gaza
academic collaboration, a project that brings doctors from the West to
Gaza to train physicians.
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