Hosted by Justin Podur
August 18th, 2013
15:30pm EST
For Immediate Release –
Egyptian authorities are currently detaining two Canadians, Professor and Filmmaker, John Greyson, and Emergency Physician, Tarek Loubani, 48 hours after their initial arrest.
Egyptian authorities have yet to provide a reason for the ongoing detention of the two Canadians.
3:20pm, Aug 18/13
We have heard from Canadian consular services that they managed to visit Tarek Loubani and John Greyson in the Egyptian prison facility. Tarek and John have both passed messages through consular services that they are okay. We still have no information about charges. Consular services will be seeing Tarek and John again tomorrow.
12:30pm, Aug 18/13
Canadian officials have confirmed to numerous members of the press that they are aware of John and Tarek’s arrests and are providing them with consular services.
There has yet to be any communication with family or friends. We presume this means that consular staff have not yet had direct access to John or Tarek.
Pressure is still needed to get confirmation of their condition and to ensure their release.
9:55am, August 18/13
We don’t have official confirmation from the Canadian authorities, but we have reason to think that John and Tarek have been located.
Pressure is still very much needed to get confirmation of their condition and to ensure their release.
8:30am Toronto time, August 18/13
We still have no confirmed information about John and Tarek’s whereabouts. We calculate that the best course of action would be for Canadian and US friends to pressure Egyptian embassies and consulates and also Canadian and US foreign affairs offices. Many of these offices will not be open on Sundays, but here is some contact information.
Canadian Embassy in Egypt: cairo@international.gc.ca
Egyptian Embassy, Ottawa, Canada
Phone:
+1-613-234-4931
+1-613-234-4935
Email:
egyptemb@sympatico.ca
Egyptian Consulate General, Montreal, Canada
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Two Canadians, doctor Tarek Loubani and filmmaker John Greyson, were arrested by Egyptian police yesterday in Cairo. They were en route to the Gaza Strip, where they are working on an academic and medical collaboration between the University of Western Ontario (UWO) and the main hospital in the Gaza Strip, the al-Shifa hospital.
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Trayvon Martin
You forgot your Biblical lessons,
Dear boy; God being Light, all
Good things are white;
And Satan being the prince
Of darkness, being born black
Is a hopeless mess.
Against such black vissicitudes
Was a just law found that said
To the white killer, “stand your ground.”
Only some sixty million of your forefathers
Were murdered in the slave trade;
Too many more are still left
To be made dead. Sinners are those
That think racism is bad.
Only when non-white trash gathers
Into a common cause is racism racism;
Zimmerman is merely God’s own prism.
Continue reading “A tribute to Trayvon, from Delhi”
Misinformation about martial arts seems to have played a role in the Zimmerman verdict. Because of the mass popularity of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), there is an assumption that people know more about martial arts than they actually do.
When the defense asked Zimmerman’s MMA (mixed martial arts) trainer to demonstrate the ‘mount’ position and the ‘ground-and-pound’, the defense’s theory was based on two propositions.
For those in Toronto, I will be doing a little Q/A session at the University of Toronto’s Hart House South Dining Room from 6-8pm on Thursday, July 25, 2013. Here’s the description:
The Future of India’s Conflict Zones – Q/A with Justin Podur
July 25, 2013, 6-8pm
Hart House South Dining Room
University of Toronto
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India wants Kashmir for itself. Pakistan wants Kashmir for itself. But the effect of both countries’ policies has been to isolate Kashmir.