Michele Dunne, a former diplomat once posted to Cairo and a senior associate at the Washington, D.C.-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said she was given no reason when she was turned back at Cairo International Airport.
"I come into the country two to four times a year, for the past 10 years at least," Dunne told Reuters from Frankfurt's airport, where she was waiting for a flight to return to the United States on Saturday after leaving Cairo that morning.
A foreign ministry spokesperson declined to comment and referred questions to the interior ministry. Calls to the ministry and its spokesperson were not answered.
Dunne, who served in the US foreign service for 17 years, including a posting at the US embassy in Cairo, was coming to Egypt for a conference of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, she said.
[ jpost.com by Reuters]
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Local authorities denied a US researcher entry to Egypt after she arrived at Cairo International Airport on Friday, reported state news agency MENA, stating that Michele Dunne was refused entry for security reasons...
ReplyDeleteDunne, a senior associate in the Middle East Programme of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former US diplomat, came to Cairo from Istanbul Friday and flew to Frankfurt shortly after she was denied entry to Egypt.
Dunne stated in a tweet that she had come to Egypt by the invitation of a "pro-government group", in order to attend a conference, referring to the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs.
In a phone interview with satellite channel Al-Hayat 2, Ameen Shalabi, the executive manager of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, said Dunne was invited on the principle that it is important to have a dialogue with those "who don't understand Egyptian conditions."
Dunne has been critical of the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi in 2013 and subsequent political developments in Egypt.
MENA described her as an "American activist" who the national security apparatus has banned from entering the country................http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/117816/Egypt/Politics-/US-researcher-denied-Egypt-entry-at-airport.aspx
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