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<p>The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend
the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond), and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary
of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth
East (Mr Ellwood), make regular representations to the Egyptian government to press
them to take further action to ensure the release of other journalists from prison,
to release political detainees and to relax restrictions on civil society. The Foreign
Secretary made a press statement on 2 February welcoming the release of Peter Greste
but stating his concern that Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed remain in detention.
He called on the Egyptian authorities to review their cases and the sentences of those
tried in absentia as a matter of urgency.</p><p>We continue to believe that stability
and prosperity in Egypt is dependent on open and inclusive politics and on full respect
for the rights contained in the Egyptian constitution.</p>
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