{"id":58578,"date":"2020-01-15T11:19:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T03:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58578"},"modified":"2020-01-15T11:19:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T03:19:50","slug":"egyptian-american-hunger-striker-dies-in-egypt-prison-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58578","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian-American hunger striker dies in Egypt prison: US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Egyptian-American-hunger-striker-dies-in-prison-837619?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/307\/30740641.295.jpg\" alt=\"Moustafa Kassem\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Moustafa Kassem<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United States has confirmed the death of an Egyptian-American, Moustafa Kassem, who had been imprisoned for alleged involvement in anti-government protests after President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi came to power in Egypt in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US State Department said Kassem&#8217;s death in custody was needless, tragic and avoidable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had been on a hunger strike and had stopped taking liquids on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was one of 600 people sentenced in a mass trial over a sit-in that ended with the security forces killing hundreds of protesters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New York Times says the 54-year-old had insisted he had no links to opposition politics and when he was detained by Egyptian soldiers, they &#8220;snatched his American passport and stomped it on the ground&#8221;. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moustafa Kassem WASHINGTON, Jan 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United States has confirmed the death of an Egyptian-American, Moustafa Kassem, who had been imprisoned for alleged involvement in anti-government protests after President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi came to power in Egypt in 2013. The US State Department said Kassem&#8217;s death in custody was needless, tragic and avoidable. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}