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Wednesday

9 November 2011

8:30:00 PM
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Egypt refuses granting visa to anti-Islam Dutch MP

A visit to Egypt by the Dutch parliament's foreign affairs committee has been canceled because lawmaker Raymond de Roon from anti-Islam Freedom Party (PVV) was refused a visa after accusing Cairo of "the ethnic cleansing" of minority Christians.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - A visit to Egypt by a delegation of the Dutch parliament's foreign affairs committee has been cancelled after MP Raymond de Roon from the anti-Islam Freedom Party (PVV) was refused a visa.

 The committee had been due to travel to Egypt on Friday for a working visit, Dutch media reported Tuesday.

 De Roon claimed that he was refused a visa because of statements he made earlier about the treatment of Coptic Christians in Egypt.

 The anti-Islam PVV leader Geert Wilders condemned the visa refusal as a "scandal".