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U.S. urges Egypt’s military to avoid political arrests

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Egypt's interim President Adli Mansour meets with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns at El-Thadiya presidential palace in CairoThe United States has called on the Egyptian military to avoid politically motivated arrests, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns said on Monday in Cairo.

Burns is the first senior U.S. official to visit Egypt since the army removed President Mohammed Mursi on July 3.

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Photo: Egypt’s interim President Adli Mansour (R) meets with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns at El-Thadiya presidential palace in Cairo, July 15, 2013. Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

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2 responses to “U.S. urges Egypt’s military to avoid political arrests”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    It’s a ZIMMERMAN.
    Right. Make the arrests for the facts we wait to see in the courts.
    But speaking of strange Lebanese politics AND laws, the way it seems to usually work in Egypt is …
    Someone (any citizen, they said) drops ‘complaints’, some ‘judge’ investigates, arrests can be made, charges come after, and courts follow through after a time?? But this time they went with complaint, then arrest, then charges … and we hope there will be investigation?? My oh my. Why wouldn’t ANY ‘arrest’ for ‘anything’ be seen as political ??

    Allow me at this time in history, to coin a new descriptive of the whole process.
    It’s a ZIMMERMAN. ® :-))))

    (In reference to ‘Village Idiot’ who was the self-appointed leader and prime VIGILANTE of ‘neighbourhood watchers’ – the guy who was allowed to walk around for 5 weeks after killing someone because he didn’t like ‘the look’ and accosted the ‘suspicious-looking character’ for that, even after being advised not to in a phone-call to police; and was finally arrested for breaking a ‘law’ when the people kept talking about it. A political football.)
    (The people bitching about the verdict in that one actually complain about the wrong thing now.)

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Right. Make the arrests for the facts we wait to see in the courts.
    But speaking of strange Lebanese politics AND laws, the way it seems to usually work in Egypt is …
    Someone (any citizen, they said) drops ‘complaints’, some ‘judge’ investigates, arrests can be made, charges come after, and courts follow through after a time?? But this time they went with complaint, then arrest, then charges … and we hope there will be investigation?? My oh my. Why wouldn’t ANY ‘arrest’ for ‘anything’ be seen as political ??

    Allow me at this time in history, to coin a new descriptive of the whole process.
    It’s a ZIMMERMAN. :-))))

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