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EU Deputies Slam Egypt over Rights Despite Cairo Threats
[AFP/Yahoo] Yann Ollivier - EU lawmakers Thursday adopted a resolution criticizing Egypt's human rights record, as Cairo threatened to sever ties with the assembly and summoned EU ambassadors to complain. "If we have to criticize the rights situation in Egypt or Guantanamo or anywhere else, we're going to do it. I couldn't care less what they think in the Egyptian capital," Greens leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit said in Strasbourg. The resolution criticizes Egypt over the status of religious minorities, alleged torture practices, and the decades-long state of emergency. It also calls for the immediate release of jailed dissident Ayman Nur, who ran against Hosni Mubarak in the 2005 presidential elections.