Sisi persecuting the families of Egyptian activists in exile
01.03.2021
When Sherif Mansour was first summoned by Egyptian security at age 17, he recalls how his father, who had plenty of first-hand experience, gave him directions on how to go to the interrogation.
Mansour has now lived in the United States for 15 years. But he remains an activist – and is again feeling the heat from Egyptian security, this time through the targeting of family members.
Mansour's cousin, Reda Abdelrahman, was detained in August and is due in court on 2 March on vague charges of supporting a terrorist group – part of what human rights campaigners say is a growing extraterritorial effort by President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi to muzzle critics.