NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE MAIREAD MAGUIRE AND PEACE PERSON ANN PATTERSON DEPORTED FROM EGYPT WHILE EN ROUTE TO GAZA WITH WOMENS DELEGATION
On 5th March, 2014 Mairead Maguire and Ann Patterson, members of the Peace People, N.Ireland were deported from Egypt as they attempted to enter the country in order to join an international delegation of 100 women wishing to visit Gaza via the Egyptian Rafah Border. The women from around the world had been invited by the Women of Gaza to join them on 8th March, International Women’s Day. Only 17 of the 100 women were allowed to enter Egypt and those turned away were given no reason for this decision by the Egyptian Government, who later when challenged, said those refused entry to Egypt had been black-listed. (They gave no criteria for blacklisting the Women.) The Egyptian Government has closed the Rafah Border until Sunday 9th March when it is…