The United States will continue to encourage Egypt to take steps on human rights, including freeing more political prisoners and guaranteeing freedom of expression, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a visit to [ More … ]
Sisi has asked the US to pressure Ethiopia to reach an agreement with Egypt on the Ethiopian dam on the Blue Nile during a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington. Meanwhile, [ More … ]
Only one day after he publicly highlighted the case of unjustly imprisoned human rights lawyer Mohamed El-Baqer on 12 April, Antony Blinken welcomed Sameh Shoukry, describing the U.S.-Egypt relations as “strategic partnership”. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken publicly highlighted the [ More … ]
In a letter to the US secretary of state, lawmakers described Egypt’s human rights violations as “pervasive and systemic”. House Democrats on Tuesday urged Secretary of State Antony Blinken to reprogram a portion of Egypt’s [ More … ]
Ahead of the U.S.-Egypt Strategic Dialogue in Washington, DC, on November 8 and 9, members of the Working Group on Egypt sent a letter to US Secretary of State on Egypt’s human rights record. The [ More … ]
Blinken says human rights, transparency and accountability are at the forefront of U.S. foreign policy while releasing the Human Rights Report 2020 In a sharp rebuke to Trump-era policies, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken [ More … ]
US secretary of state decries killing of Jamal Khashoggi as ‘abhorrent’, and says administration is reviewing blacklisting of Yemen’s Houthis US Secretary of State Antony Blinken decried the “abhorrent” murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and suggested [ More … ]
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