Happy day: #Egypt releases 41 unjustly held detainees, including Waleed Shawky,
Radwa Mohammed,
Mohammed Salah,
Haitham Banna - confident that Anwar Sadat played an important role in making this happen
Waleed is free!
Mohammad Salah with his wife, at last:
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Prosecutor must seek approval from the Pre trial chamber to proceed but seems to urgent ICC State Parties to do so as a faster route.
It took *years* to get the ICC prosecutor to first agree to examine and then years more to agree to investigate the war crimes in Palestine - including Israeli settlements. The investigation is still…….. ongoing….. as baton was passed to new prosecutor.
"In the wake of the #Saudi murder of Jamal Khashoggi and other attacks on U.S. based critics of Middle Eastern governments, we need to recognize that #Egypt's targeted spying on critics here in the U.S. puts them in grave danger of violence and harm
"That #Egypt has breached our government's trust is the least of it; this is a direct effort to threaten, harass, and intimidate the people of our country, including thousands of Egyptians who have sought asylum from persecution by al-Sisi."
“The notion that the PIF is some independent financial authority that isn’t used to carry out murders & assassinations at the beck & call of MBS is just patently untrue.He does &has been using the PIF as a fig leaf between his face on things and Saudi Arabia’s face on things.”
“What they’re doing is taking millions of dollars from a regime that has kept alive an inexplicable civil war in #Yemen for nearly seven years with as Whitson said, “no military strategy or military gains, achieving only the starvation and destruction of a neighboring country.”
We expect @POTUS administration to lift $300m block on #Egypt military aid tomorrow despite Egypt’s total failure to meet any of Congress” “human rights conditions”.
That’s all ya need to know that our fight isn’t just against the government of Egypt but its enablers in the US.
All those folks in @biden admin who’ve whispered in our ears telling us the waiver is imminent - and struggled alongside us against Egypt’s abuses when they were outside the government - are they just whispering in Sisi’s ears now too?
The real farce of all this is orchestrated show to give @SecBlinken excuses for a waiver: thanking Sisi for his “essential” mediation w Hamas (bullshit), Sisi releasing a few detainees (of 50,000), Egypt releasing a “national human rights strategy (double bullshit).
“Without guarantees that these declassified documents will not shield Saudi Arabia and Saudi officials from information about their role in the attacks, U.S. officials will again fail to provide the truth to those most directly affected by this event.”
"We must urgently overhaul legal & policy rationale underpinning Global War on Terror that allowed for unlawful invasion of Iraq, torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib, unlawful detentions at Guantanamo Bay & various CIA 'black sites,' warrantless surveillance, & other abuses."
For decades, a steady flow of funds —more than $50 billion in military aid plus $30 billion in economic aid since 1978—has assured Egyptian leaders that they possess something world’s dictators value far more than even most advanced military hardware: political support from US
steady stream into their coffers sends important message to ordinary Egyptians, too. No matter what state-sponsored torture or terror they suffer, US has their govts back, &aside from the occasional stern statement of concern, US will do nothing to end support for their abusers.