{"id":53466,"date":"2015-02-05T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ebcf7df29c89b100914181812c6b2a34"},"modified":"2015-02-05T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T11:24:00","slug":"press-release-fco-minister-concerned-by-sentencing-of-230-people-by-egyptian-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=53466","title":{"rendered":"Press release: FCO Minister concerned by sentencing of 230 people by Egyptian court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Minister for the Middle East Tobias Ellwood said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am deeply concerned by the sentencing of activist Ahmed Douma and 229 others to life imprisonment today and that 39 juveniles were sentenced to 10 years in detention, on charges relating to demonstrations in 2011. It is important that reports of serious procedural inconsistencies in the trial should be addressed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Mass trials and excessive sentences of this kind damage the international community\u2019s confidence in the rule of law in Egypt. I encourage the Egyptian authorities to ensure that all trials in Egypt are conducted in line with international standards and that there is full respect for defendants\u2019 human rights.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Follow Foreign Office Minister Tobias Ellwood on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TobiasEllwoodMP\">@TobiasEllwoodMP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\">Facebook<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/b\/105922144104190309938\/+foreignoffice\/posts\">Google+<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_193\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:newsdesk@fco.gov.uk\">newsdesk@fco.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">News Desk <\/span><br \/>\n              020 7008 3100\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for the Middle East Tobias Ellwood concerned by sentencing of Ahmed Douma and 229 others to life imprisonment in Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}