Thread by @sarahleah1

#Egypt released 46 detainees Tuesday, apparently political cases, names not confirmed, in PR buildup to show compliance with human rights conditions on $300M in blocked US weapons, give @SecBlinken excuse he wants to waive condition.

Don't fall for it.

@SecBlinken In past week, #Egypt has also indicted @hosambahgat leading human rights activist, arrested a scholar coming home for a family visit, and today sentenced another 6 Egyptians to die, and 37 to life imprisonment.

This is on top of 50,000 political detainees languishing in prisons

@SecBlinken @hosambahgat And on top of that, in mind-boggling brazenness, Egypt intelligence chief Abbas Kamel showed up in DC a few weeks ago, palm out, but demanding that US jail US citizen @soltan complaining US didn't keep its "promise" to jail him in exchange for securing his release in Egypt

@SecBlinken @hosambahgat @soltan Expect mucho PR yang yang in coming weeks eg bloated claims of Egypt's "critical role" in #Gaza, Egypt's release of detainees, Egypt's fight against terrorism, all in buildup to @POTUS breaking another promise, waiving block on military aid, & signing a new blank check to Sisi

@SecBlinken @hosambahgat @soltan @POTUS The usual suspects in Congress will also chime in about how important it is for Israel's "security" that US continue to provide arms to Egypt's terrorist-in-chief, coup leader Sisi.