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Nobel laureate Arab activist Karman deported from Cairo airport
Yemeni journalist and Nobel laureate Tawakul Karman was deported upon arriving at the Cairo International Airport by Egyptian authorities on Sunday, state news agency MENA reports.
Arriving with a friend at the Cairo airport on a flight from the Yemeni capital, Karman and was detained at the airport for a few hours, then sent back to Sanaa. Her friend was asked to leave with her.
The world-renowned Arab Spring activist – who voiced criticism for the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi by the military in July – learned upon arriving at the Cairo airport that her name had been added to airport security's no-entry list.
On her Twitter account Karman had published that she would be coming to Egypt and going on a solidarity visit to the pro-Morsi large five-week sit-in at Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square in northeast Cairo pressing for Morsi's reinstatement.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/78263/Egypt/Politics-/Nobel-laureate-Arab-activist-Karman-deported-from-.aspx
Arriving with a friend at the Cairo airport on a flight from the Yemeni capital, Karman and was detained at the airport for a few hours, then sent back to Sanaa. Her friend was asked to leave with her.
The world-renowned Arab Spring activist – who voiced criticism for the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi by the military in July – learned upon arriving at the Cairo airport that her name had been added to airport security's no-entry list.
On her Twitter account Karman had published that she would be coming to Egypt and going on a solidarity visit to the pro-Morsi large five-week sit-in at Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square in northeast Cairo pressing for Morsi's reinstatement.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/78263/Egypt/Politics-/Nobel-laureate-Arab-activist-Karman-deported-from-.aspx