Warlord
06-05-2013, 04:36 PM
Looks like daddy pulled some strings when he was detained but the court has now found him ....
http://www.newbernsj.com/polopoly_fs/1.128932.1366318284!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_445/0419-guilty-tag.jpg
CAIRO - The son of U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood was among 16 Americans sentenced to jail in absentia by a court in Egypt Tuesday, part of a diplomatic dispute over the activities and funding of U.S.-backed pro-democracy groups.
Sam LaHood was given a five-year sentence and fined 1,000 Egyptian pounds ($143).
He is among 43 U.S. citizens and foreign nationals to face trial over what Egypt called a crackdown on non-profit organizations working in Cairo without required licenses.
However, opposition groups claim the cases were brought in order to harass activists involved in the country’s 2011 Arab Spring revolt – which led to the removal of former leader Hosni Mubarak – and the subsequent transfer of powers from the military to civilians.
Of the 16 U.S. citizens sentenced on Tuesday, all but one were tried in absentia having left Egypt, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo confirmed.
It was not immediately clear what would happen to the U.S. citizen who remains in Egypt.
Some were given shorter jail sentences than LaHood, but all had to pay the same fine.
The ruling also ordered the permanent closure of the Egypt offices of all non-profit groups involved in the case – including the U.S.-based organizations International Republican Institute, Freedom House, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and the International Center for Journalists.
Their assets were also ordered to be seized.
LaHood was among a group that was detained at Cairo’s airport in 2012 and prevented from leaving the country – a situation that was eventually resolved following diplomatic pressure from Washington.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/04/18745191-ray-lahoods-son-sentenced-to-jail-in-egypt-in-absentia-over-pro-democracy-dispute?lite
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http://www.newbernsj.com/polopoly_fs/1.128932.1366318284!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_445/0419-guilty-tag.jpg
CAIRO - The son of U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood was among 16 Americans sentenced to jail in absentia by a court in Egypt Tuesday, part of a diplomatic dispute over the activities and funding of U.S.-backed pro-democracy groups.
Sam LaHood was given a five-year sentence and fined 1,000 Egyptian pounds ($143).
He is among 43 U.S. citizens and foreign nationals to face trial over what Egypt called a crackdown on non-profit organizations working in Cairo without required licenses.
However, opposition groups claim the cases were brought in order to harass activists involved in the country’s 2011 Arab Spring revolt – which led to the removal of former leader Hosni Mubarak – and the subsequent transfer of powers from the military to civilians.
Of the 16 U.S. citizens sentenced on Tuesday, all but one were tried in absentia having left Egypt, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo confirmed.
It was not immediately clear what would happen to the U.S. citizen who remains in Egypt.
Some were given shorter jail sentences than LaHood, but all had to pay the same fine.
The ruling also ordered the permanent closure of the Egypt offices of all non-profit groups involved in the case – including the U.S.-based organizations International Republican Institute, Freedom House, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and the International Center for Journalists.
Their assets were also ordered to be seized.
LaHood was among a group that was detained at Cairo’s airport in 2012 and prevented from leaving the country – a situation that was eventually resolved following diplomatic pressure from Washington.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/04/18745191-ray-lahoods-son-sentenced-to-jail-in-egypt-in-absentia-over-pro-democracy-dispute?lite
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