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US rights activist alleges Egypt police abuse

By REUTERS

MARCH 4, 2014 16:17

CAIRO - A US rights activist on Tuesday accused Egyptian police of breaking her arm after they detained her in Cairo airport while she was on her way to a humanitarian visit to neighboring Gaza.

"Help. They broke my arm. Egypt police," tweeted Medea Benjamin, founder of protest organization Code Pink, which rose to prominence for opposing the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.

She said she was now in Turkey after being held in a poor conditions in a cell at Cairo airport.

"I was brutally assaulted and I am furious. I am now in a hospital in Istanbul airport," she texted Reuters after being deported.

"I think it's a fracture and a dislocated shoulder up to my neck and down the side of my body."

An Egyptian airport official denied any abuse and said she had been deported after 20 hours. The official told Reuters that Benjamin was on a watch list for "involvement in acts harmful to Egyptian national security".

The US Embassy in Cairo told Reuters it knew of her detention.

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