The pair checked in for a flight to Frankfurt on Sunday, but were prevented from boarding the plane after their names appeared on a "stop list" issued by prosecutors, airport officials said.
The two retrieved their luggage and were free to leave the airport.
Their inclusion on the no-fly list was described Monday as a "bureaucratic glitch" by Greyson’s partner, Stephen Andrews, in an interview on CBC Radio's Metro Morning.
It was thought Greyson and Loubani would be free to return home sometime this week, but on Monday morning, CBC’s Middle East correspondent Sasa Petricic tweeted that may not be the case:
New twist in Greyson/Loubani case. Now Foreign Min says Cdns NOT free to leave #Egypt bcse investigation continues into poss charges
— Saša Petricic (@sasapetricic) October 7, 2013
Greyson and Loubani, an emergency ward doctor, were arrested Aug. 16 during the violent demonstrations..
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Most of the pertinent information about their past activities is "scrubbed" from any news? reportage in the CBC, Toronto Star etc. But when I hear that Loubani is traveling with a person to film his exploits, it really becomes more about political propaganda than "humanitarian" causes. It reminds me of the John Kerry as a young soldier in Viet Nam who just happen to have miles and miles of film footage of himself to use as he began his political career.
ReplyDeleteI know the analogy wasn't meant to be exact, but still, I don't think it's fair to Kerry to compare him with someone like Loubani. Though both do indeed seem to have invested a lot of time in creating their own personal mythologies
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