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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Egypt denies U.S. rights activists entry to Gaza

Ha'aretz - DPA
Egyptian security forces on Tuesday prevented dozens of American activists from reaching the U.S. embassy in Cairo, where they hoped to ask the ambassador to help them reach the Gaza Strip.

Riot police surrounded 41 U.S. citizens and one Egyptian...

The police stopped the activists on a side street near the embassy and kept them there for hours, before allowing them to see consular officials in groups of 10 at a time.

"We have three people inside the embassy right now. We believe the U.S. embassy asked Egyptian state security to act against its own citizens and prevent them from entering the Embassy," Gael Murphy, one of the activists, told the German Press Agency dpa.

"We are outraged as U.S. citizens about being detained simply for trying to get to our embassy," she said... Full story
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