Egypt: ANHRI Decries the Travel Ban Imposed On Poet "Abdel Rahman Yusuf"

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Cairo: — The Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), today, denounced the travel ban imposed, by Egyptian security bodies, on Abdel Rahman Yusuf- poet and member of Writers' Union of Egypt- without mentioning any reasons.

Yusuf was on his way to New York to hold several seminars in different US states; the matter that has previously been announced. He was surprised that the airport security services inform him that his name on the travel ban list. Yusuf had been waiting for half an hour to take back his luggage, and then he left the airport.

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