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Riot policemen move into position as a few dozen supporters of ousted President Hosni Mubarak gather outside of the Tantawi Mosque before his funeral in Cairo, last month
TRADE unions could be branded terrorist organisations in Egypt following their inclusion in a draft law passed unanimously in the country’s parliament claiming to combat “money-laundering and fighting terrorism.”
The regulations extended the definition of “terrorist entity” to new categories including businesses and trade unions as Egypt redefined “the crime of financing terrorism.”
The law defines as a terrorist entity any association, organisation, group or gang set up “for the purpose of disturbing the public order, endangering the safety, interests or security of the community or harming national unity by any means.”
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