Egypt's Sissi Says Respects Right to Protest With Caution

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi said on Tuesday people in Egypt have the right to demonstrate but cautioned that protesting now could cause more harm to the country's battered economy. Human rights activists say a law restricting protests and other security legislation enacted by Sissi in the absence of a parliament have rolled back freedoms won in a 2011 uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Sissi was elected virtually unopposed last May, almost a year after the...

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