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The Mubaraks Are Adjusting To Prison Life

April 18, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui

Michael Slackman’s must read on how Jamal and Alaa Mubarak are adjusting to life behind bars:

They make docile inmates, their captors say, still stunned to find themselves behind bars […] Gamal appears badly shaken and often refuses to eat. He shares a cell with Alaa. “Bear in mind they are very broken,” said a prison official who described the situation inside […] “They do everything they are asked. They don’t raise their voices.”

I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that this happened..