The Hemp Industries Association (HIA) only recently came to know about Mostafa Soliman, a U.S. resident and owner of Healthy Harvest, who only narrowly made it out of his prison cell at the last minute because protesters had attacked and set the jail on fire. Now the organization is launching a campaign to get him out of Egypt, but as one might guess, the U.S. Embassy is a bit swamped right now and the fact that Soliman was in jail on drug charges doesn't make his quest to get out any easier.
"This is a tragic mistake that could be solved with a simple drug test. Mr. Soliman is being falsely accused of importing 'hash oil' when it fact it was healthy hemp food," said Eric Steenstra, Executive Director of the HIA. "The HIA and Votehemp.com are launching a campaign to free Mostafa Soliman that will hopefully jump-start action at the U.S. State Department. We recognize that the unrest in Egypt will make it more difficult for U.S. authorities to act, but this terrible mistake by Egyptian authorities was made well before the recent protests began and in many ways symbolizes the corruption the protestors are resisting."
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