Subject File: Egypt

Scope and Content

File contains papers relating to Platts-Mills' work in connection with political, legal and human rights issues in Egypt. Papers include notes, reports, correspondence, press cuttings, notebooks, printed statements, trial observations, publications, etc. Includes references to the following: Egyptian Military Court terrorist allegation case against 47 persons in 1995 for which Platts-Mills was briefed to act; Egyptian Action Group in London for the British Defence Team; Amnesty International in Cairo, Egypt, in the 1970s-1980s; 'Framed trials' of political prisoners and the Committee for the Defence of Egyptian Political Prisoners and Internees in Paris in 1959; Fawzeya Makhlouf's work in Egypt as a member of the Progressive National Union Party of Egypt and on behalf of Amnesty International.

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