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January 31st, 2016 
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Samar Samir (TCP) : Authorities at Cairo International Airport have denied entry and deported Egyptian researcher Atef Botros back to Germany, Youm7 reported Saturday.
Egyptian Academic Researcher Atef Botros– A Screenshot From A Video By Deutsche Welle
Botros, who was was travelling from Germany to Egypt, was detained at the airport for seven hours Friday evening, an official at the airport spoke to Youm7 on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to brief the media. Authorities are yet to release a statement on the reasons behind preventing the researcher entry to Egypt.
Botros, who works as a Near and Middle East Studies professor at Germany’s Marburg University Centre was informed that he has been banned from entering Egypt for life, the source added.
The Al-Masry al-Youm newspaper reported that he was banned from entering Egypt following a report issued from the Egyptian embassy in Berlin. After being notified about the entry ban, Botros announced he will stay inside the airport until entering his country; however, he was deported back to Germany after an intervention from the German embassy in Cairo.
“An official at the German embassy in Cairo has informed Botors’ family that the (Egyptian) national security said he is detained in the airport and will be deported back to Germany on a Lufthansa plane tomorrow,” journalist Walid al-Sheikh, Botros’s friend, posted on his official Facebook page Friday.
Botros is the founder of the Berlin-based Mayadin al-Tahrir Organization, a body that aims “to enhance the capacities of marginalized groups in Egypt.” The organization’s official website said; its team in Germany “manages fundraising, public relations and organizing events on Egyptian themes, like art and culture.”
In a phone call to Germany the Deutsche Welle on June 3, 2015, Botos criticized President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s regime, saying “Sisi runs a country…whose Judiciary service almost broken or politicized…a country where systematic torture is being practiced inside police stations.”
During his visit to Berlin in June, 2015, Sisi defended mass death sentences handed down to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood members.
In December 2015, Egypt has arrested journalist Ismail Alexandrani at Hughada International Airport, who has been detained ever since. His wife, Khadeeja Gaafar said that he was detained in Egypt according to instructions from the Egyptian embassy in Berlin.
In a joint statement Saturday, a total of 60 human rights organizations and advocates called on immediate release of writer and researcher Hisham Gaafar, head of the board of trustees of the Mada foundation for Media Development.
He was arrested for charges including “belonging to banned group and receiving a bribe from foreign bodies in exchange for information that the security apparatus considered harmful to national security.”
According to the statement, police forces of Homeland Security arrested Gaafar Oct.21, 2015, after raiding his workplace, in the 6 October City. The security forces reportedly held the staff members for hours and confiscated books, papers, and computers.
Samar Samir, The Cairo Post
Source Article from http://nsnbc.me/2016/01/31/cairo-airport-authorities-detain-deport-researcher-atef-botros-back-to-germany/
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