Human rights NGOs : denounce the scandalous silence of France by ignoring repression in Egypt

While the Egyptian president began an official visit to Paris, several human rights organizations denounced the “scandalous” silence of the France in relation of  repression in Egypt.

While the Egyptian president began an official visit to Paris, several human rights organizations denounced the “scandalous” silence of the France in relation of repression in Egypt and ask Emmanuel Macron appeal to president Al-Sissi on the situation of human rights in the country.

Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International evoke “systematic torture” carried out “large-scale” and arbitrary arrests, to the representatives of civil society and journalists. A “repressive machine”, says NGO, carried out under the veil of the fight against terrorism.

“The French authorities explain that Egypt is central to regional stability and that it is crucial to support in its fight against terrorism. Yet the latter, which is tainted serious abuses, which is an excuse to suppress any peaceful protest, created a fertile to radicalization. Young people are left without any means of peaceful protest,”said Bénédicte Jeannerod, Director France of Human Rights Watch.

Symbol, for many, this brutal repression, the Italian student Guilio Regeni, who was found dead in January 2016 on the outskirts of Cairo, the atrociously tortured body. If the Egyptian security services are suspected, the truth about his death still not yet revealed, despite the pressures of Rome and the European Union.

@Karawan

 Euronews