Egypt: Deportortation of 654 Sudanese Refugees

Egypt will deport 654 Sudanese refugees who were violently evicted from a protest camp in a Cairo park last week (December 31), a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Tuesday (January 3). They will be taken to Sudan by ship on Thursday (January 5) because "they were either found to be illegal immigrants or refugees who had violated security conditions," spokeswoman Fatma el-Zahraa Etman told The Associated Press.