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04 Aug 2025

'It's not looking good' - People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy detained in Egypt

The TD was on his way to Rafah for the Global March to Gaza

'It's not looking good' - People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy detained in Egypt

A recent photo of Paul Murphy TD in Egypt shared via X.

People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy has been detained in Egypt along with a group of other people intending to travel to Rafah for a large peace march for Gaza.

The TD took to X, formerly Twitter, to share that the group of marchers had been stopped by Egyptian authorities on Friday and their passports confiscated. 

He added: "They are telling us to get on a bus, but it is not clear where they will take us. We fear they intend to report us to stop us from marching to Gaza."

Murphy posted a two minute-long video on social media to explain the unfolding situation.

In the video, he said: "We've heard news about people being stopped in Cairo and their passports taken off them and now it seems their phones taken off them, probably detained and probably with a view of deporting them.

"It's looking worrying that the Egyptian authorities are going to act to try to prevent our peaceful march to Gaza to demand that Israel's blockade of humanitarian aid, of food, of water, medical supplies is ended."

In a plea for assistance, the TD added: "I'm asking people to redouble their efforts, put pressure on your own government. So in our case, get onto Simon Harris. Get onto your local TD to ask them to pressurise the Egyptian regime to allow us to engage in our peaceful march." 

He said that he would try to keep people updated on their situation, but admitted "for the moment it's not looking good."

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