Bikya Masr Staff 5 November 2009 in Egypt
CAIRO: Leading Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nour has been banned from leaving Egypt by the State Security. Nour, who has been pushing forward on a campaign against Gamal Mubarak becoming the country’s next president, was given the final word on Wednesday that he was denied a passport, meaning possible meetings with Vice-President Joe Biden and an invitation from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace will not be honored.
“The public prosecutor issued an administrative decision to prevent me from traveling to the United States of America and some other countries in the Middle East and Europe. My trip to the US was planned to start on November 6, 2009,” Nour said in a press release on Wednesday late afternoon.
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