Egyptian Government Hides Behind UN Ahead of COP27

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, center, sits between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, left, at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue conference in Berlin, July 18, 2022. © 2022 Markus Schreiber/AP Photo When criticized on rights, autocratic governments often try desperately to prove their legitimacy. A textbook example is the Egyptian government’s lashing out at recent Human Rights Watch research on how Egypt has imposed arbitrary funding, research, and registration obstacles on the country’s independent environmental…

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