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U.S. Citizen Detained in Egypt Commits Suicide

HeadlineOct 14, 2013

In Egypt, an U.S. citizen held in detention for six weeks has been found dead in his jail cell in an apparent suicide. James Lunn was detained during a security sweep in the Sinai Peninsula in late August. Egypt’s Interior Ministry claims Lunn was in the area of a car-bomb attack on a police station and was found with a “computer and maps of important facilities.”

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