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The sentencing of three prominent public opposition figures reflects the continuation of the Egyptian state's policy of imprisoning peaceful dissidents for exercising their fundamental rights.
During the last six months, Cairo has announced a series of ostentatious reforms aimed at improving its mediocre record in human rights. In fact, however these are merely window-dressing meant to dupe the “international community” and ease the moral pressures on the regime. On 25 October 2021, in a series of grandiloquent messages posted on the social networks, Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi announced that for the first time in four years he was not going to prolong the state of (.)
This document provides an overview of Human Rights Watch’s observations and questions to Egypt in advance of the upcoming pre-sessional review of Egypt by the UN Human Rights Committee (“the Committee”).
Immediate international action is needed to protect Egypt's independent human rights movement, said human rights groups after authorities threatened to dissolve Egyptian civil society organisations unregistered under the repressive law.