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Elliott Abrams: “More charges have been filed for the crime of insulting the President in the less than 1 year of Mohammad Morsi's rule…”

On the recordFebruary 25, 2013
More charges have been filed for the crime of insulting the President in the less than 1 year of Mohammad Morsi's rule than since 1892.
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Elliott Abrams

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Abrams highlights the increase in charges against dissent under Morsi's government.

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