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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9504

19 September 2007
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/egypt
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network critical of Cairo's decision to close AHRLA

Cairo/Copenhagen, 18/09/2007 (Agence Europe) - The EMHRN, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, has condemned the Egyptian government's decision “to dissolve the Association for Human rights and Legal Aid (AHRLA)” which was active in revealing institutionalised use of torture in Egypt. The reason given for the closure of the Association was that AHRLA had broken the law preventing NGOs from receiving foreign funding without permission. This “legal weapon”, often used in...

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