Medea Benjamin of Code Pink announced on twitter last night that she had been jailed by Egyptian police as she was on her way leading a group of activists to “Hamas-lead” Gaza traveling via Cairo. This morning she tweeted that the Egyptian Police had broken her arm.
Help. They broke my arm. Egypt police
— Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) March 4, 2014
Code Pink had worked with the Muslim Brotherhood to over throw Egypt’s former President Mubarak. The current government of Egypt has declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization after Brotherhood leader Morsi was removed from the presidency. Perhaps that is why Benjamin was detained.
Last night her twitter feed read:
I’m being held in a jail at Cairo airport!!!
— Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) March 4, 2014
@AlliMcCrack twitter only thing that seems to work in this Cairo jail
— Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) March 4, 2014
.@tighebarry @AlliMcCrack @AnnWright46 @anni think Twitter might work in this Cairo jail. You getting this?
— Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) March 4, 2014
.@nancymancias you getting this? I’m in jail in cairo
— Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) March 4, 2014
.@tighebarry @AlliMcCrack @AnnWright46 @anni think Twitter might work in this Cairo jail. You getting this?
— Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) March 4, 2014
.@tighebarry @AlliMcCrack @AnnWright46 @anni think Twitter might work in this Cairo jail. You getting this?
— Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) March 4, 2014
Only food for 5 women is dirty stale bread and dirty water pic.twitter.com/6YFwXm4KL0
— Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) March 4, 2014
It’s unclear how Benjamin is tweeting with a broken arm, or allowed to tweet at all from her Egyptian jail cell.
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