[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2649 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2649

 To provide certain legal relief from politically motivated charges by 
                        the Government of Egypt.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 23, 2014

  Mr. Graham (for himself, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Kaine, and Mr. 
    McCain) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide certain legal relief from politically motivated charges by 
                        the Government of Egypt.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. RELIEF FROM POLITICALLY MOTIVATED CHARGES BY GOVERNMENT OF 
              EGYPT.

    (a) Treatment of Charges Under United States Law.--For purposes of 
United States law, and for activities undertaken within the 
jurisdiction of the United States, no verdict, order, warrant, or writ 
issued by the Government of Egypt or any court, administrative 
tribunal, or other authority of the Government of Egypt in any instance 
relating to the legal charges, trial proceedings, and convictions 
issued by the Cairo Criminal Court on June 4, 2013, in ``Public 
Prosecution Case No. 1110 for the Year 2012'' against 43 staff of five 
international nongovernmental organizations shall be considered a 
conviction and no person named in such verdict, order, warrant, or writ 
shall be considered to have been charged, accused, found guilty, or 
convicted.
    (b) Recognition of Charges as Politically Motivated.--It is the 
policy of the United States to recognize any legal charges, trial 
proceedings, and convictions issued by the Cairo Criminal Court on June 
4, 2013, in ``Public Prosecution Case No. 1110 for the Year 2012'' as 
being politically motivated in origin and invalid.
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