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Egypt: Detained US Citizen Found Hanged in Cell

Sunday, 13 October 2013 10:05 AM EDT

CAIRO — A U.S. citizen was found dead in an Egyptian prison on Sunday in an apparent suicide six weeks after he was arrested for breaking a curfew, security sources said.

James Henry Lunn had been held at Ismailia, northeast of Cairo, since his arrest on Aug. 28 near the border with the Gaza Strip.

A U.S. embassy official said a U.S. citizen had died as the result of an apparent suicide at the Ismailia prison. Egyptian authorities made no immediate comment.

The U.S. State Department issued a statement confirming Lunn's death and said it had contacted his family and was providing consular assistance, including helping repatriate his remains and protecting his personal property.

At the time of Lunn's arrest, security sources had said that he was on his way to Gaza.

He was arrested in the town of Sheik Zwayed in North Sinai for breaking a dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed amid clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Lunn's detention had been extended by 30 days on Saturday for further investigation.

The State Department said it was first informed of Lunn's case on Aug. 28, a day after his arrest, and had been in regular contact with him and with Egyptian authorities.

The prisoner had hung himself with his shoe laces and an autopsy was now being carried out, one security source said.

In September, a Frenchman accused of breaking the curfew was beaten to death by fellow detainees in Cairo, security sources said.

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