(Center for Global Policy) This week’s Navigator is being issued on January 25 in recognition of the anniversary of the Egyptian revolution that toppled former dictator Hosni Mubarak. Seven years on, CGP Senior Fellow Sahar Aziz – American-Egyptian lawyer and scholar of national security, civil rights and Middle East law – examines the deteriorating political and […]
(Washington Post) AFTER MEETING Egyptian ruler Abdel Fatah al-Sissi last Saturday, Vice President Pence told reporters that he had raised the cases of two Americans unjustly imprisoned in Cairo as well as the treatment of nongovernmental organizations and religious freedom. Those are all matters in which the Egyptian regime has egregiously violated human rights, including those
(Amnesty International) The arrest of presidential candidate and former Armed Forces Chief of Staff, Sami Anan, is an attack on the rights to public participation and freedom of expression by eliminating any serious opposition to President Abdelfattah al-Sisi in the upcoming presidential elections, Amnesty International said today. “This arbitrary arrest of a potential presidential candidate shows
(The Office of U.S. Senator John McCain) Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman on the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement today on the 7th anniversary of the January 25th revolution in Egypt, and the crackdown on human rights and democracy under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi: “Seven years ago this week,
What Sisi has done to rival factions in the army is not a recipe for a long and peaceful life, even in retirement (Middle East Eye) A few days before Ahmed Shafiq announced his short-lived run for the Egyptian presidency, a meeting was held in Cairo to decide who should mount a serious campaign to unseat
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