Egyptian Islamists Protest Prison

(Cairo, Egypt) With the way the media has hammered the United States about conditions at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, it surely isn't surprising that prisoners around the world want their plight exposed in the same manner.

From the Gulf Daily News:

Eighteen Islamists have started a hunger strike in a prison south of Cairo to protest their conditions of detention. The 18, whom police nabbed in 2002 on charges they wanted to launch jihad, are protesting "the transfer of five comrades to another jail," the Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights said.

I think it's safe to assume that the elite media will probably not be complaining about the conditions in Egyptian prisons. The MSM seem not interested in prison stories that can't be tied directly to an agenda that embarrasses and weakens the U.S.