| It's not a good time to be a foreigner in Egypt. Yesterday it was Frenchmen. |
John Greyson is a Toronto filmmaker and university professor, and Tarek Loubani is an emergency room doctor from London, Ontario.
The men were tossed in the slammer
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
last month soon after trying to enter Gazoo, where Greyson was scouting for a documentary and Loubani planned to help train local doctors. But they were turned back at the Gazoo border and later locked away
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
in Cairo.
"They're on the third day of their hunger strike," Greyson's sister Cecilia told AFP.
She had rallied filmmakers and moviegoers at the Toronto International Film Festival last week to press for the pair's release, prior to a scheduled meeting with Egyptian prosecutors over the weekend.
But the meeting was pushed to next week and in the meantime the pair were ordered held for an additional 15 days.
"We're losing confidence in the process as it's been going so far," Cecilia Greyson said.
On their detention, she said previously that there were "blanks in the picture" because their families have not had an opportunity to speak to the pair directly.
She said the men had asked at a cop shoppe for directions back to their hotel room, and were arrested.