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12 weeks 4 days ago - Egypt

The first court session in the trial of 43 pro-democracy political trainers has begun in Egypt, though only 14 of the defendants have arrived.

Nineteen Americans are charged in the case, and seven of them are in Egypt, but none have attended the hearing. Some of the Americans have sheltered at the US embassy in Cairo.

An official with the National Democratic Institute, one of the five nonprofit groups accused in the case, said the foreign defendants, including the Americans, had not received court summons and would not attend.

The defendants are charged with working without a license and illegally receiving foreign funding, though the ousted government of Hosni Mubarak tacitly allowed them to function for years. 

Tags americans, defendants, NGO, trial
15 weeks 3 days ago - Egypt

Earlier today, the Egyptian Justice Ministry released a list of 43 individuals indicted on charges of illegally receiving foreign funding and establishing civil society organisations without license.

Their names were published in the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper in Arabic, along with their nationalities and whether the investigating judge considered them present or "fugitives". In such cases, we have written "absent".

There are 19 Americans, of whom 13 are listed as being "fugitives". All 14 Egyptians are listed as present.

International Republican Institute

Samuel LaHood (American)

Sherine Nafeet (American)

Christine Angel (Norwegian)

Dan Eric Tishk (American - absent)

Hans Chris (American - absent)

John George Toma (American)

Rida Khader al-Raya (Palestinian)

Osama Azizi (American Lebanese - absent)

Tanya Mark (American - absent)

Elizabeth Dugan (American - absent)

Ahmed Shawki Haikal (Egyptian)

Ahmed Abdel Aziz Abdel Aal (Egyptian)

Ahmed Oreib Adam (Egyptian)

Essam Borei (Egyptian)

National Democratic Institute

Julie Ann Hughes (American)

Almandin Kotovitch (Serbian)

Jodmir Milic (Serbian)

Layla Jafar (American - absent)

Robert Becker (American)

Mariana Konasevitch (Serbian)

Sitia Nilhaj (American)

Dana Zebakono (American - absent)

Ali Juda al-Haj Suleiman (Lebanese - absent)

Maroun Abdel Basir (Lebanese - absent)

Michael Jeans (American - absent)

Mohammed Ashraf Kamel (Egyptian)

Radwa Sayyid Ahmed - (Egyptian)

Hafsa Maher Halawa - (Egyptian)

Amin Mohammed Morsi - (Egyptian)

Freedom House

Charles Dan - (American - absent)

Al Sherif Ahmed Mansour (American - absent)

Amir Amin Jarrah - (Jordanian - absent)

Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Aziz - (Egyptian)

Nancy Gamel Akil - (Egyptian)

Basem Fathi Mohammed Ali - (Egyptian)

Magdi Moharrem Hassan - (Egyptian)

International Center for Journalists

Patrick Butler - (American - absent)

Natasha Tynes - (American - absent)

Megan Mitchell (American - absent)

Yehia Zakaria Ghaem - (Egyptian)

Islam Mohammed Foued - (Egyptian)

Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

Andreas Jacobs - (German)

Christine Margaret - (German)

Tags americans, list, NGO, Raid
26 weeks 2 days ago - Egypt

Egyptian state television has broadcast footage of what it alleges are three foreigners arrested by police for participating in street battles near Tahrir Square, on the road to the Interior Ministry. 

Firas al-Atraqchi, an associate professor of practice in journalism at the American University in Cairo, tweeted that the IDs displayed showed that some of the men were enrolled at the university.

Tags americans, arrested, foreigners, state tv

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