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| UN ambassador says Egypt's protest law restricts freedoms |
| 2013-11-27 |
| [Al Ahram] US Ambassador to the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Samantha Power has said that Egypt's newly enacted protest law restricts freedoms. "New law regulating peaceful protests in #Egypt simply doesn't meet intl standards," she tweeted on Tuesday. "Gov't must protect freedoms, and this law restricts them." Power's comments come in the wake of the dispersal of two protests in downtown Cairo on Tuesday. One of the dispersed protests was against the new protest law and the other was against the legalization of military trials for civilians. Earlier in the day, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights criticised the newly approved Egyptian protest law as "seriously flawed," urging the government to amend it. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Yes g(r)om, Power is both of those...and more. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2013-11-27 14:41 |
| #1 Samantha Power has said that Egypt's newly enacted protest law restricts freedoms. Racist. Also a fascist. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-11-27 05:03 |