(Washington Post) Ernesto Londono - The trial of 43 people charged with unlawfully conducting pro-democracy work in Egypt will begin Feb. 26, state media reported Saturday. The defendants include at least 16 Americans. The state-run newspaper al-Ahram also said that Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, had asked Egyptian officials during a recent visit to let him take the seven Americans under indictment who remain in Cairo on his military plane, but the officials turned down Dempsey's request.
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