Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Elisa Epstein Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/09/26/protests-egypt-show-trumps-wrong-about-al-sisi At the United Nations General Assembly meetings this week, US President Donald Trump praised Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as a “great leader” who has brought Egypt out of “turmoil.” A few weeks earlier Trump reportedly...
Learn MoreElisa Epstein is the Coordinator for the Washington Advocacy team at Human Rights Watch. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, she was a Research Assistant at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy and interned with the Pentagon’s Office of Middle East Policy and the American Refugee Committee. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Near
Learn MoreSource: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Elisa Epstein Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/11/14/us-congress-should-not-be-fooled-egypts-platitudes US policymakers shouldn’t be fooled by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s recent call to review Egypt’s draconian 2017 NGO law, which effectively criminalized non-governmental groups and set the path for “unprecedented”...
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