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Presidential nominee Ahmed Shafik issued an apology to individuals who were arrested \u201con account of their personal relationship with me, or for being one of my supporters, or for participating and supporting my 2012 presidential campaign.\u201d Shafik said in a tweet yesterday<\/a> that authorities must resolve the situation as soon as possible and clarify why these individuals were arrested, calling the situation \u201cdangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Presidential nominee Ahmed Shafik issued an apology to individuals who were arrested \u201con account of their personal relationship with me, or for being one of my supporters, or for participating and supporting my 2012 presidential campaign.\u201d Shafik said in a tweet yesterday that authorities must resolve the situation as soon as possible and clarify why […]<\/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":[2376,72],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-635929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt-politics-economics","tag-egypt-politics-economics","tag-enterpriseam","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"20cc8831-eff2-4f1c-9435-4eb62b79bb13","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"0ab4cca8-f67f-4174-b03f-b45314727b8d","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[635883],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nShafik apologizes to his arrested supporters - 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