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Egypt criticized for arrests of human rights advocates

The Trump administration, the Biden Campaign and the United Nations also expressed concern about the arrests.
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The governments of several nations whose delegates met with members of an Egyptian human rights organization in Cairo earlier this month have spoken out against the Sisi government’s arrest of three lead members of the group in response to the meeting.

The governments of Canada, Germany, Ireland, France, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands have spoken out against the arrest of top leaders of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a Cairo-based think tank that advocates for civil liberties and economic and social justice.

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