No go NGO

As Egypt's government celebrated the 50th anniversary of the coup that toppled King Farouk and brought Gamal Abdel Nasser to power, a state security court handed seven years in gaol to an Egyptian/American civil society activist, Saadeddin Ibrahim. The sentence, on 30 July, was condemned by the European Union and the USA.

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Farouk, Gamal Abdel Nasser, American, Saadeddin Ibrahim, Ahmed Maher, raq, Hosni Mubarak, Amr Moussa, Ahmed Shafik, Mohammad Hussein Tantawi, Omar Suleiman, Gamal, Syria, Bashar al Assad, Gamaa al Islamiya

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