HRES 193 IH 
Whereas Mirvat el Nady entered Egypt on August 11, 2009, 
using a British passport which falsely indicated her name 
as ‘‘Mirvat Nady’’; 
Whereas EgyptAir, a company owned by the Egyptian State, 
accepted a cash payment of $10,000 from Mirvat el Nady 
for tickets for herself, Noor and Ramsay despite the fact 
that the children’s surnames on their fraudulent pass-
ports did not match the surname of the accompanying 
adult, Mirvat el Nady; 
Whereas in August of 2009, following this violation of the 
Probate Court’s ruling, the Massachusetts Trial Court 
granted sole physical custody of Noor and Ramsay to 
their father, Colin Bower; 
Whereas in August 2009, local and Federal warrants were 
issued for the arrest of Mirvat el Nady on charges of kid-
napping; 
Whereas in April of 2010, a red notice was issued by Interpol 
for the same purpose internationally; 
Whereas in March of 2008, Mirvat el Nady fraudulently and 
without Colin Bower’s knowledge filed for physical cus-
tody of Noor and Ramsay through the Egyptian court 
system by falsely claiming the children and Colin Bower 
were Egyptian residents; 
Whereas in December 2009, Mirvat el Nady obtained by de-
ception an order from the Egyptian court granting her 
custody of Noor and Ramsay; 
Whereas in November 2010, Colin Bower successfully ap-
pealed the custody ruling through the Egyptian court 
system, and the order giving Mirvat el Nady custody over 
Noor and Ramsay was thereby revoked; 
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Whereas despite visitation rights being granted to Colin 
Bower by the Egyptian Court allowing him to see Noor 
and Ramsay twice per month during the period of the 
custody dispute, Mirvat el Nady had denied him 13 of 16 
court ordered visits with his sons, and during the three 
visits that occurred, the children were surrounded by 
Egyptian security forces at all times and Colin Bower 
was physically intimidated; 
Whereas the State Security Forces of Egypt concealed and 
protected Mirvat el Nady from prosecution; 
Whereas despite repeated appeals to Egyptian political and 
security officials by members of the United States De-
partment of State, the revocation of Mirvat el Nady’s 
custody in Egypt, and the subsequent lack of custody de-
termination for the children existing in Egypt, no action 
has been taken by the Egyptian government to facilitate 
the return of Noor and Ramsay to their father who con-
tinues to be the only legal custodian of the children; 
Whereas the Egyptian government has failed to recognize the 
valid custody order of the court of competent jurisdiction, 
the Probate and Family Court of the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts, and has allowed Mirvat el Nady to con-
tinue the unlawful retention of American citizen children, 
Noor and Ramsay Bower; 
Whereas furthermore, the People of Egypt has undertaken to 
reform their Government to ensure the protection of 
human rights and the democratic rule of law; 
Whereas the United States has expressed its desire, through 
the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of Inter-
national Child Abduction, ‘‘to protect children inter-
nationally from the harmful effects of their wrongful re-
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moval or retention and to establish procedures to ensure 
their prompt return to the State of their habitual resi-
dence’’; 
Whereas according to the Department of State’s April 2010 
Report on Compliance with the Hague Convention on the 
Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, ‘‘parental 
child abduction jeopardizes the child and has substantial 
long-term consequences for both the child and the left-be-
hind parent’’; 
Whereas according to the Department of State, there are 31 
ongoing cases involving 48 children wrongfully removed 
from the United States to Egypt; 
Whereas the Department of State’s Office of Children’s 
Issues, while not always notified of international child ab-
ductions, opened 1,080 cases of parental child abduction 
to other countries involving more than 1,501 children 
just last year; and 
Whereas the incidence of reported child abduction cases has 
more than doubled since 2007: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That— 
(1) the House of Representatives— 
(A) calls on Egypt to, in accordance with 
its goals of promoting human rights and demo-
cratic rule of law, bring about the safe return 
of Noor and Ramsay Bower to their father, 
Colin Bower, in the United States; 
(B) calls on Egypt to immediately stop 
using its own security forces in aiding and abet-
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ting the continued unlawful retention of United 
States citizens Noor and Ramsay Bower; and 
(C) urges Egypt and all other nations to 
join and fully participate in the Hague Conven-
tion on the Civil Aspects of International Child 
Abduction, and to establish procedures to 
promptly and equitably address the tragedy of 
child abductions, given the serious consequences 
to children of not expeditiously resolving these 
cases and of denying them access to a parent; 
and 
(2) it is the sense of the House of Representa-
tives that the United States should— 
(A) urge other nations like Egypt to be-
come parties to the Hague Convention on the 
Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 
and establish systems to effectively discharge 
their reciprocal responsibilities under the Con-
vention; 
(B) take other appropriate measures to en-
sure that Hague Convention partners return 
abducted children to the United States in com-
pliance with the Hague Convention’s provisions; 
(C) continue to work aggressively for the 
return of children abducted from the United 
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States to countries that are not Hague Conven-
tion Partners and for visitation rights for left- 
behind parents while return is negotiated, es-
tablishing 
memorandums 
of 
understanding 
where necessary for the expeditious return of 
children; and 
(D) pursue criminal extradition of abduct-
ing parents where resolution of the abduction is 
not otherwise obtainable. 
Æ 
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