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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10859

5 June 2013
Contents Publication in full By article 28 / 31
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) egypt
Verhofstadt condemns imprisonment of NGO employees

Brussels, 04/06/2013 (Agence Europe) - The leader of the Liberals at the European Parliament, Guy Verhofstadt of Belgium, condemned, on 4 June, the sentencing that very same day, by an Egyptian criminal court, of 43 people to prison sentences of between one and five years on the pretext that they were working for NGOs not registered in Egypt.

Verhofstadt takes the view (our translation): “It is totally unacceptable that Egypt, which says it is a democracy today, uses a law from Mubarak...

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