Mustafa Kassem died of heart failure after more than six years in prison. In a handwritten letter he managed to smuggle out of Cairo’s maximum-security Tora prison, he begged US President Donald Trump for help, which never came. Host Marco Werman speaks with Mohamed Soltan of The Freedom Initiative, who represented Kassem during his case.
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