CAIRO: A Lawyer for former Egyptian premier and presidential hopeful Ahmed Shafiq on Sunday demanded access to him after he was reportedly deported from the United Arab Emirates to his homeland.
Shafiq has not been seen since an airport official said he landed back in Cairo on Saturday evening after aides claimed the Emirati authorities loaded him onto a private jet. The former army general was forced to leave the Gulf country, where he had been living in exile since 2012, after he announced his candidacy for presidential elections next year, Lawyer Dina Adly said in a statement on her Facebook page.
"So far the general has not called me and I was not summoned to meet him," said Adly. She cited "media reports" that Shafiq has arrived in Egypt "and is residing in a hotel in Cairo." Adly appealed to the authorities "to allow me to meet him to check on him and to verify whether or not he has actually arrived in Egypt." A relative of Shafiq?s told AFP that "we have no information about him".
12-04-2017, 03:14 PM
Lawyer demands to see Egypt?s president hopeful
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