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On the recordJuly 23, 2018
This hearing is timely, as this Saturday, a court in Egypt will be deciding whether to execute over 700 individuals who were arrested during the violent dispersal of a protest in 2013.
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David Cicilline
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Cicilline discusses the urgent legal situation of detainees in Egypt.

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