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By Ali Abdelaty and Ahmed Aboulenein CAIRO (Reuters) - One of the pan-Arab television network Al Jazeera's best known journalists, Ahmed Mansour, was remanded in custody by a German judge after being detained at Egypt's request, the public prosecutor's office said on Sunday. Mansour was arrested in Berlin at Egypt's request, in a case that puts Germany in an awkward position as it wrestles with balancing business interests and human rights, and also renews questions about Cairo's crackdown on dissent. Egypt accuses Al Jazeera of being a mouthpiece of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Qatar-backed Islamist movement that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi removed from power in 2013 when he was army chief and calls a terrorist group.
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