Egyptian parliamentarian Ghada Agami will submit a draft law to intensify the punishment for illicit trafficking of antiquities and illegal excavation to the death penalty.
Agami told Egypt Today that her philosophy behind increasing the penalty is that the one who "sells his history will sell his honor."
Agami said that the intensification the punishment for illicit trafficking of antiquities and illegal excavation will stop the “continuous bleeding of Egypt's history”. First of all, this history belongs to the world, not one country ruled by a military dictatorship. Secondly, the anti-collecting lobby should not get ideas above their station.
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