The US and EU have turned a blind eye to Sisi’s misdeeds, so now it’s up to Canada to take on Egypt's human rights violations
Last month as Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el Sisi was mingling with senior European leaders in the resort city of Sharm el Sheikh, a 24-year-old Amal Ahmed was busy in Canada mobilising support for her father who had been detained by the Egyptian authorities.
Initially, the Egyptian authorities denied Albaz was in their custody. Then he was brought before the prosecutor a week later. Amal Ahmed, a former Toronto Star reporter, has pleaded Canadian government to intervene in securing her father's release. The Egyptian government is accused of arbitrarily arresting thousands of political and civil rights activists on fabricated charges.
In January 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron was in Egypt where he defended France's security collaboration with Sisi's government. The EU’s commitment to human rights, especially its staunch opposition to capital punishment, came under the spotlight last month when its senior leadership, including European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, attended the first EU-Arab League summit in Sharm el Sheikh.
France has become Egypt’s largest supplier of military equipment even as human rights organisations say that weapons meant to be deployed against terrorists are used against dissidents. The EU has struggled to come up with a collective response to Egypt because individual member states have their own bilateral interests to look after, he says.
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