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Guy Verhofstadt: Totally unacceptable that NGO workers in Egypt are sentenced to jail

Today an Egyptian criminal court has sentenced 43 people to between one and five years in prison for working for unregistered NGOs in Egypt. Twenty-seven defendants, all of whom were tried in absentia, received five-year jail sentences. O…

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Outrageous: NGO workers in Egypt jailed

Today an Egyptian criminal court has sentenced 43 people to between one and five years in prison for working for unregistered NGOs in Egypt. Twenty-seven defendants, all of whom were tried in absentia, received five-year jail sentences. O…

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Libya: Mahmoud Jebril calls for national dialogue to consolidate democratic transition

This week the ALDE group welcomed Mahmoud Jibril, Libya’s interim Prime Minister after the fall of the Gaddafi regime and currently leader of the largest political party in the Libyan Parliament (National Forces Alliance). This was his fi…

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