Opinion: Why we’re pushing back against the Egyptian president’s constitutional coup
Egyptian President Abdel-Fatah al-Sissi addresses the Egyptian parliament in Cairo on June 2, 2018. By Bahey eldin Hassan April 19 at 8:38 PM Bahey eldin Hassan is the director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and a founding member and chief adviser of the Egyptians Human Rights Forum .First, on April 9, there was President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi’s visit to the White House, where he received a warm welcome from his U.S. counterpart.
Sissi’s five years in power have brought Egypt to a dark place. Since 2013, the country has experienced the biggest authoritarian crackdown in its modern history, aimed at members of the peaceful opposition, both Islamist and secular. More than 60,000 people have been jailed for political reasons, and hundreds have died in prison.
Yet the brutality doesn’t stop there. Egyptians now find themselves confronting the phenomenon of “false positives.” That’s a term coined in Latin America, where security forces kidnapped civilians, executed them in remote areas and passed them off as militants killed in combat. Since 2015, Egyptian security forces have announced the killings of more than 460 people, alleging that they were terrorists killed in action.
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