CAIRO - The family of an Egyptian-US citizen, detained during Syria protests two weeks ago, urged Egypt's Foreign Ministry to intervene with the Syrian authorities to secure his safe release. Mahmoud el-Safti was arrested during protest against the Syrian regime on sabotage charges on the last Friday of March as the Syrian TV aired him in a video tape admitting he takes photographs and sends them abroad, according to one of his sons. "My father, 54, works as an engineer in Kuwait. However, he is married to a Syrian woman and visits Syria twice a year. He was held for photographing the protests," said Abdullah, el-Safti's son. El-Safti's son called on the Egyptian Foreign Ministry to help release his father just like the two Egyptians who have been recently freed from Syrian jails.
