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Thursday, 23 June 2016

FM spokesperson denounces Amnesty International’s ‘incitement against Egypt’

Another angry FM statement about Amnesty: Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Ahmed Abuzeid condemned “Amnesty International’s way of inciting against Egypt” in a press statement on Wednesday, Al Masry Al Youm reported. The statements come on the heels of an Amnesty letter sent on 21 June to the Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Paolo Gentiloni expressing “concern of the lack of significant progress in establishing facts and responsibilities for [Giulio Regeni’s] tragic death.” The letter also praised Italy’s recalling of its ambassador to Cairo and keeping the new ambassador in Rome, and called for stopping Italy’s supply of weapons to Egypt. Abuzeid expressed his “surprise” that the letter did not criticize Cambridge University for not cooperating with Regeni’s family, which Cambridge had denied. Abuzeid called the group unprofessional and not objective, and said it simply insisted on criticizing the situation in Egypt.

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