{"id":2329,"date":"2007-09-25T02:34:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T02:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2007-09-25T02:34:31","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T02:34:31","slug":"2007-9-25-white-house-criticizes-egypt-on-rights-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2329","title":{"rendered":"White House criticizes Egypt on rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070924\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/us_egypt_1\">White House criticizes Egypt on rights<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NEW YORK &#8211; The White House on Monday voiced displeasure with recent decisions in Egypt to crack down on dissenting voices within the media and to close a human rights group, saying it is &#8220;deeply concerned&#8221; about the moves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These latest decisions appear to contradict the Egyptian government&#8217;s stated commitment to expand democratic rights,&#8221; White House press secretary Dana Perino said.<\/p>\n<p>The unusual public statement of discontent with the leadership in Egypt came as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was having dinner in New York with Egypt&#8217;s foreign minister.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One supposes that this may have more to do with being <a href=\"\/archives\/2007\/09\/24\/kassem-given-award-diehl-on-egyptian-press\/\">embarrassed<\/a> by the Washington Post again than anything else &#8212; another statement that carries no teeth and serves a domestic purpose.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070924\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/us_egypt_1\">White House criticizes Egypt on rights<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NEW YORK &#8211; The White House on Monday voiced displeasure with recent decisions in Egypt to crack down on dissenting voices within the media and to close a human rights group, saying it is &#8220;deeply concerned&#8221; about the moves.<br \/>\n&#8220;These latest decisions appear to contradict the Egyptian government&#8217;s stated commitment to expand democratic rights,&#8221; White House press secretary Dana Perino said.<br \/>\nThe unusual public statement of discontent with the leadership in Egypt came as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was having dinner in New York with Egypt&#8217;s foreign minister.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One supposes that this may have more to do with being <a href=\"\/archives\/2007\/09\/24\/kassem-given-award-diehl-on-egyptian-press\/\">embarrassed<\/a> by the Washington Post again than anything else &#8212; another statement that carries no teeth and serves a domestic purpose.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[6,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}