Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop
Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Sixteen Americans – including transportation secretary's son Sam LaHood – among 43 staff guilty of receiving foreign funding
By Louisa Loveluck in Cairo and agencies, guardian.co.uk, 4 June 2013
A Cairo criminal court has convicted 43 NGO workers, including at least 16 Americans, of operating without a licence and receiving foreign funding. The case had sparked international outrage, souring relations between Egypt and the US, and inflaming domestic fears over the potential for foreign funding to influence internal political affairs.
Twenty-seven of the defendants, all of whom were tried in absentia, received prison sentences of five years. Eleven of those who attended the trial received one-year suspended sentences, and five others received two years. Judge Makram Awad also ruled that the NGOs that the defendants worked for should be closed in Egypt.
Most of the Americans – including Sam LaHood, son of the US transportation secretary Ray LaHood – had already left the country. LaHood received a five-year jail term [....]
Comments
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/04/2013 - 7:37pm