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 (.)