Egypt: No End to Escalating Repression

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Egyptian security forces cordon off roads during curfew hours as prevention measures due to the coronavirus outbreak, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, March 29, 2020. © AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty (Beirut) – Egyptian authorities intensified their repression of peaceful government critics and ordinary people during 2020, virtually obliterating any space for peaceful assembly, association or expression, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2021. The parliament approved President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s extension of a nationwide state of emergency for the fourth year…

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