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August 11, 2014

Egypt Denies Entry to Human Rights Watch Exec Director 
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The executive director of Human Rights Watch has been denied entry to
Egypt. Kenneth Roth was held for 12 hours at Cairo's international
airport along with HRW Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson before
being turned away. Roth and Whitson had flown to Egypt to mark the
one-year anniversary of a mass shooting by state forces that killed
hundreds of unarmed protesters opposing the overthrow of President
Mohamed Morsi. In a post on Twitter, Roth said: "[The] massacre numbers
rank with Tiananmen and Andijan but Egypt gov't wouldn't let me in to
present [a] report on it."

 

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