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German Student Deported from Egypt Following Release

January 11, 2019

According to local news outlet Sada El Balad, Egyptian authorities have deported Mahmoud Ezzat Abdul Aziz from Egypt to Germany on Thursday. The news of the Göttingen-originating student Mahmoud Aziz ‘s detention in Cairo airport, on the 27 of December while traveling with his brother Malik Aziz, was confirmed by German Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Adelbahr. Abdul Aziz was a student at the Islamic University in Saudi Arabia, and had been detained upon arrival.  Local authorities justified the arrest due to having received notice that the student was attempting to join terrorist elements in the Sinai. However, Egyptian authorities also confirmed that Abdul Aziz had not committed any crimes and, as he forfeited his Egyptian nationality, was freed from detention. Alternatively, the fate of 18-year-old Isa El Sabbagh, who was detained on December 17 at Luxor airport, remains unclear. El Sabbah, who had forfeited his Egyptian nationality in 2007, was en route to visit his grandfather. Families of both disappeared men had claim that their sons were not politically active and thus local authorities lacked justification for their detention. However, Sada El Balad reported that authorities had found maps of North…


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