CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian rights activist said on Tuesday security officials had confiscated his passport and prevented him travelling to Germany where he was due to speak at a parliament roundtable on the human rights situation in Egypt.
The grounding of Mohamed Lotfy, executive director of local NGO the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF), came on the same day that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was to begin an official visit to Germany.
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