{"id":907,"date":"2013-08-18T12:35:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T12:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=907"},"modified":"2013-10-29T07:31:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T07:31:29","slug":"crowe-concerned-for-irish-citizens-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-concerned-for-irish-citizens-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe concerned for Irish citizens in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has expressed his concern for four Irish citizens being held in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>The four of them were among hundreds of people besieged in a Cairo mosque after it was surrounded by Egyptian security forces. Two of them are now reportedly being detained by the Egyptian security forces.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am concerned for the well-being of four Irish citizens who sought refuge in a Cairo mosque after taking part in a political protest. Two of them are reportedly being detained by the Egyptian security forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation in Egypt is very volatile at the moment and there is wide spread violence since the military coup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Irish embassy in Cairo needs to do all they can to ensure the safety and well-being of these Irish citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has expressed his concern for four Irish citizens being held in Egypt. The four of them were among hundreds of people besieged in a Cairo mosque after it was surrounded by Egyptian security forces. Two of them are now reportedly being detained by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}