Egyptian authorities at the Cairo International Airport denied entry to Nabeel Rajab, President of the Bahrain Human Rights Centre after he arrived at Cairo airport on Wednesday morning. Rajab said on his twitter account he is going to be deported to Bahrain.
The immigration officer in cairo airport stopped me and asked me to wait and took my passport #EGYPT #Cairo
— Nabeel Rajab (@NABEELRAJAB) April 11, 2012
مسكين في مطار القاهرة – هذا هو حال النشطاء العرب في المطارات العربية #EGYPT #Cairo #bahrain twitter.com/NABEELRAJAB/st…
— Nabeel Rajab (@NABEELRAJAB) April 11, 2012
The officer of the immigration in #cairo airport said that they going to deport me to #bahrain #EGYPT
— Nabeel Rajab (@NABEELRAJAB) April 11, 2012
Rajab travelled from Bahrain to Egypt this morning. The prominent activist was stopped at the airport after his passport was confiscated. The reasons for his deportation are not known.
On a similar note, last week Bahraini human rights activist Maryam Al-Khawaja daughter of hunger stirker Al-Khawaja was allowed to enter Cairo after being held at the airport for 12 hours. She had travelled to Egypt from Copenhagen via Warsaw to attend a human rights conference but Egyptian authorities told her she had been blacklisted and would be deported.
On account of being held furious Rajab tweeted below which translate to: Egypt’s Mubarak has not prevented us from entering Egypt and now the revolution is prevented from entering (via Google Translate)
في مصر مبارك لم يتم منعنا من الدخول والآن في مصر الثورة يتم منعنا من الدخول#bahrain #EGYPT #Cairo
— Nabeel Rajab (@NABEELRAJAB) April 11, 2012
Once the news broke, primarily tweeps from Bahrain and Egypt started ranting against the deportation of Rajab.
Nabeel Rajab @NABEELRAJAB president of the #bahrain center for human rights has been stopped and will be deported from #egypt now
— Maryam Alkhawaja (@MARYAMALKHAWAJA) April 11, 2012
#Bahrain HRD Nabeel Rajab stopped at Cairo Airport &Cairo Institute for Human Righs Studies doing its best to facilitate his entry to #Egypt
— Khalid Ibrahim (@khalidibrahim12) April 11, 2012
Few weeks back Mr. Rajab was featured in HARDTalk on BBC where he spoke on how the king of Bahrain is not keeping up to his promises and what lies ahead for Bahrain.
