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“The 2012 letter, signed by El-Sayed and more than 30 others, urged Mohamed Morsi, the then-newly crowned president of Egypt and a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, to “purge” the media and police, the Washington Free Beacon first reported last month.”

“WASHINGTON — Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed once signed a letter urging the then-newly crowned president of Egypt, a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, to “purge” the media and police.”

““We, leaders of the Egyptian community, support the revolutionary decisions taken by the president, and we call on him to purge the media and the police as quickly as possible,” read the letter.”

“Over 80 international and regional rights groups, civil society organizations and independent media called on the Egyptian authorities to release the journalists, condemning what they called an escalating crackdown on independent media.”