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Egypt police search office of US rights group

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The operation is targeting the US group National Democratic Institute, according to Heba Morayef of the global rights group HRW, and the Arab Centre for the Independence of Justice, its head Nasser Amin told AFP.

The search operations were ordered by the prosecution service which is investigating how the rights groups are financed.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011