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Four siblings may be released from Cairo prison

Hopes are rising that the four Irish citizens who have been missing in Egypt since Friday could be r...
TodayFM
TodayFM

1:42 PM - 19 Aug 2013



Four siblings may be released...

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Four siblings may be released from Cairo prison

TodayFM
TodayFM

1:42 PM - 19 Aug 2013



Hopes are rising that the four Irish citizens who have been missing in Egypt since Friday could be released today.

The Halawa siblings are understood to be in a jail in central Cairo after being detained by police during violence in Cairo last Friday.

It's thought that the siblings were seen by a Turkish diplomat who was visiting another inmate in the same prison.

Meanwhile a group of Egyptian and Irish demonstrators have been holding a protest at the Egyptian embassy in Dublin to demand the family's release.

Our senior correspondent Gavan Reilly reports.



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