What can be learned from a journalist’s time in an Egyptian prison

Fahmy writes a book documenting his time in an Egyptian prison: Mohamed Fahmy, the Canadian-Egyptian Al Jazeera reporter who was imprisoned in Egypt as part of the so-called Marriott cell, released a book documenting his time in detention. Fahmy’s imprisonment over charges of being a pro-Muslim Brotherhood “terrorist,” fabricating news and endangering the “security” of the state were “lies” and the trials that followed were a mockery of justice, writes Robert Fisk for The Independent. In the book, “The Marriott Cell: An Epic Journey from Cairo’s Scorpion Prison to Freedom,” Fahmy says he found himself both appalled by the self-righteousness of his fellow prisoners (primarily Islamists), but was trusted and admired by them, because he too had fallen foul of the same system.