Egyptian activists are trying to invigorate the public in the face of the president’s sweeping constitutional changes, but he doesn’t intend to allow this to threaten his rule
Egyptian actor Amr Waked became unfortunately involved in what must seem like a bad movie. The handsome, blue-eyed young man who played the role of Mohammed Sheik Agiza in George Clooney’s “Syriana” became public enemy number one, after tweeting against the execution of nine Egyptian men for the 2015 assassination of Egypt’s Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat.
Waked’s thousands of followers on social media quickly joined his protest, human rights groups in Egypt and abroad condemned the death penalty and only Western governments, ever so concerned for human rights, squirmed out of direct condemnation of President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi.
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