Government postpones using legal loophole in Halawa case until verdict is given

A legal loophole which would allow Ibrahim Halawa to leave his Egyptian jail will not yet be used by the Irish Government, despite his three-year imprisonment.

Government postpones using legal loophole in Halawa case until verdict is given

A legal loophole which would allow Ibrahim Halawa to leave his Egyptian jail will not yet be used by the Irish Government, despite his three-year imprisonment.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan has said the Government wants to wait until a verdict has been given in his case before trying to use law 140 to free him.

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