Biography
Abdel Mohsen Hamouda was an Egyptian in Denver arrested without a warrant on November 30, 1951 and held incommunicado in solitary confinement, denied medical care, after speaking publicly against a proposed British–U.S. Middle East military pact — a political arrest tied to his anti-colonial views.
In an open letter printed April 9, 1952, Ellis Island detainee Martin Young identified Abdel Hamouda as his roommate, a young Egyptian petroleum-engineering student arrested in Colorado. Young alleged denial of care for serious spine and arm injuries and described Hamouda returning ill after three days and four nights in solitary confinement following his February 21 request to use his own funds for food and warm clothing. This is attributed eyewitness testimony about Ellis Island confinement already underway, not a new initial admission or a three-day total for the whole imprisonment.
