Critics say US president's realpolitik ignores Sisi regime's 'hostage-taking tactics' against dissidents "It's a hostage negotiation and it has been all along," said Sherif Mansour, describing the arrest of his cousin Reda Abdel-Rahman by Egyptian security forces last August as an attempt to intimidate Mansour into silence. Abdel-Rahman has been imprisoned without trial for nine months. Mansour, an outspoken human rights advocate in Washington with the Committee to Protect Journalists, has since...
Critics say US president's realpolitik ignores Sisi regime's 'hostage-taking tactics' against dissidents "It's a hostage negotiation and it has been all along," said Sherif Mansour, describing the arrest of his cousin Reda Abdel-Rahman by Egyptian security forces last August as an attempt to intimidate Mansour into silence. Abdel-Rahman has been imprisoned without trial for nine months. Mansour, an outspoken human rights advocate in Washington with the Committee to Protect Journalists, has since...
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