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Egypt rejected allegations that it has cracked down on activists who cooperate with the UN Human Rights Council, according to Reuters<\/a>. \u201cThese persons who alleged that they are targeted by acts of reprisals had in fact perpetrated crimes punishable by law and were subjected to legal measures such as investigation, arrest, or trial,\u201d Egyptian diplomat Ayman Ammar said during a UN debate on Thursday. Egypt was among a number of countries named in UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres\u2019 annual report<\/a> into reprisals against human rights activists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Egypt rejected allegations that it has cracked down on activists who cooperate with the UN Human Rights Council, according to Reuters. \u201cThese persons who alleged that they are targeted by acts of reprisals had in fact perpetrated crimes punishable by law and were subjected to legal measures such as investigation, arrest, or trial,\u201d Egyptian diplomat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9346],"tags":[1878,2376,72,210],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-595290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt-politics-economics","tag-antonio-guterres","tag-egypt-politics-economics","tag-enterpriseam","tag-human-rights","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"a589c6f3-ec8e-4609-b663-49c638497340","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[595260],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nEgypt rejects UN allegations of reprisal against activists - 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