{"id":1546,"date":"2021-11-26T15:38:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T15:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egyptianforum.org\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2021-11-26T16:11:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T16:11:44","slug":"joint-letter-human-rights-concerns-following-the-us-egypt-strategic-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egyptianforum.org\/en\/joint-letter-human-rights-concerns-following-the-us-egypt-strategic-dialogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint letter: Human Rights Concerns Following the US-Egypt Strategic Dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"8p7f1-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8p7f1-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8p7f1-0-0\">November<\/span><span data-offset-key=\"8p7f1-1-0\"> 23, 2021<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"ea4vi-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"2j1ag-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2j1ag-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"eu0u5-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"eu0u5-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"eu0u5-0-0\">Human Rights Concerns Following the US-Egypt Strategic Dialogue<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"3p6fs-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3p6fs-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3p6fs-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"7ofgv-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7ofgv-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7ofgv-0-0\">Dear Secretary Blinken,<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"7ofgv-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"fph0c-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"fph0c-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fph0c-0-0\">Our organizations write to you in response to the disappointing US-Egypt Strategic Dialogue held on November 8-9 in Washington, DC. In the days leading up to the dialogue, the State Department both publicly and privately committed to elevate human rights and accountability for abuses as topline priorities with Egyptian authorities. By all appearances, the Biden administration has failed that commitment.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"c7n1u-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"c7n1u-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"c7n1u-0-0\">The joint statement released after the dialogue mentions human rights in passing, certainly in far less depth than the numerous \u201cdefense cooperation\u201d commitments that the US agreed upon with the Egyptian government. In fact, the statement fails to mention any specific human rights concerns or agreements.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"c7n1u-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"evai9-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"evai9-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"evai9-0-0\">The Biden administration also \u201cwelcomed Egypt\u2019s National Human Rights Strategy, and national plans to advance human rights in the country in cooperation with civil society.\u201d This \u201cstrategy,\u201d launched by President Abdel al-Sisi in September, is not a meaningful commitment to addressing the human rights crisis in Egypt. It fails to acknowledge the Egyptian government\u2019s wielding of draconian legislation to criminalize freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, as well as rights violations committed by security forces with absolute impunity. The strategy also ignores Egyptian authorities\u2019 ongoing abuse of vague counter-terrorism laws to stifle and punish critics and civil society, as well as their widespread use of extrajudicial killings, torture, enforced disappearances, and systematic discrimination against women religious minorities, LGBTQ+ Egyptians, migrants, and asylum seekers. It also fails to hold security forces accountable for the killing of over 900 protestors in the 2013 Rabaa massacre.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"evai9-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"e2ufn-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e2ufn-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"e2ufn-0-0\">The claim that al-Sisi\u2019s government intends to meaningfully cooperate with civil society and implement genuine reforms is belied by the ongoing crackdown on human rights groups. Instead, authorities broadly and unjustly continue to arbitrarily detain, target, and punish rights defenders, journalists, civil society workers, and opposition politicians over their lawful criticism of Egyptian authorities and Egypt\u2019s human rights record. The Biden administration knows their names: Ibrahim Ezz el-Din, Patrick George Zaki, Haytham Mohamdeen, Ezzat Ghoniem, Hoda Abdelmoniem, Mohamed Baker, Alaa Abdel Fattah, Zyad el-Elaimy, Hossam Moanis, Hisham Fouad, Abdel Nasser Salama, and countless more. In these and many other cases, authorities have tried and imprisoned critics on spurious charges of \u201cspreading false news\u201d in blatant sham trials.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"e2ufn-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"2q96l-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2q96l-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2q96l-0-0\">At the time of writing, prominent human rights defender and director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights Hossam Bahghat is awaiting his verdict for spurious charges stemming from his human rights activism. Additionally, Egyptian courts convicted Bahey el-Din Hassan, director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights, in two separate cases in absentia, sentencing him on fabricated charges to a total of 18 years of imprisonment for exercising his human rights. Criminal investigations under Case 173 are still targeting at least 15 rights defenders and civil society workers; even those no longer under investigation in the case still face arbitrary travel bans and asset freezes imposed by Egyptian authorities.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"akik8-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"akik8-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"akik8-0-0\">While the Strategic Dialogue was held in Washington, thousands in Egypt remained, and still remain, arbitrarily imprisoned. This includes rights defenders, journalists, and opposition leaders targeted by abusive terrorism-\u00a0<\/span>related charges. In many cases, they have been subjected by authorities to torture, ill-treatment, and denial of adequate medical care.<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"akik8-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"4l6m8-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4l6m8-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4l6m8-0-0\"> At least 83 executions have been recorded so far in 2021, an alarming rise for the world\u2019s third worst executioner in 2020. Especially concerning is that at least 36 men remain at risk of execution following unappealable convictions by emergency courts in grossly unfair trials rampant with rights violations and claims of \u201cconfessions\u201d extracted under torture. Calls and recommendations by UN bodies and member states, along with international and Egyptian rights groups, have been largely ignored by Egyptian authorities who have instead given a fa\u00e7ade of \u201creform\u201d via the release of a limited number of detainees\u2013some arbitrarily held for years\u2013without dropping the threat of further arrest and prosecution.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"4l6m8-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"bpdin-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"bpdin-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bpdin-0-0\">lifting of Egypt\u2019s four year nation-wide state of emergency,\u00a0<\/span>Egyptian authorities have transformed Egypt into an \u201copen-air prison for critics,\u201d increasingly using with the green light of billions in US security aid. This repression Egypt\u2019s borders, with authorities carrying out reprisals against families of Egyptian dissidents living abroad. The Biden administration knows well the case of Mohamed Soltan, a US- based rights defender, and his father Salah Soltan\u2013held incommunicado in Egypt in apparent reprisal for Mohamed\u2019s activism.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"ie2d-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ie2d-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"3hp6q-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3hp6q-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3hp6q-0-0\"> Despite President al-Sisi\u2019sEgypt\u2019s parliament quickly passed other amendments to further entrench the president\u2019s exceptional powers and the unjust jurisdiction of military courts over civilians; dozens of dissidents continue to face sham trials in \u201cemergency courts.\u201d Broadly, extreme measures to destroy rights defenders\u2019 lives, all extends beyond US law prohibits the continuation of arms transfers to any government determined to have carried out such a pattern of harassment against individuals in the United States. The Foreign Assistance Act also clearly bars the United States from providing security assistance to grave rights abusers such as the Egyptian government, let alone when credible evidence confirms use of US-provided arms in said abuses. There are no exceptions in these laws that support the administration\u2019s convoluted justifications.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"43spn-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"43spn-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"43spn-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"74qhj-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"74qhj-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"74qhj-0-0\">Yet, with this Strategic Dialogue, the administration made no public acknowledgment or indication of the need to reevaluate and condition US security assistance to Egypt on the basis of human rights \u2013which the US should do until al-Sisi\u2019s government takes tangible measures to end systemic abuses and improve human rights conditions. As the US begins its membership term on the UN Human Rights Council in January 2022, it should\u00a0<\/span>also push for the establishment of a UN human rights monitoring mechanism in Egypt. The Biden administration should take such steps to promote meaningful accountability for the systemic rights violations carried out by the Egyptian government with total impunity.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"4n4ml-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4n4ml-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4n4ml-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"55sfj-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"55sfj-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"55sfj-0-0\">The Biden administration\u2019s lack of robust action in response to Egypt\u2019s brazen human rights abuses renders hollow its commitment to \u201cprotecting and supporting human rights defenders.\u201d It is time for this administration to exercise real political will and stand up to the Egyptian government on human rights.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"bn9g4-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"bn9g4-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bn9g4-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"f3a9u-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"f3a9u-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"f3a9u-0-0\">Sincerely,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"8vgg9-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8vgg9-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8vgg9-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"3c1sh-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3c1sh-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3c1sh-0-0\">Amnesty International USA<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"3qut6-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3qut6-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3qut6-0-0\">Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies Committee for Justice<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"e7rs4-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e7rs4-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"e7rs4-0-0\">Committee to Protect Journalists<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"dlk89-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dlk89-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dlk89-0-0\">Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) Egyptian Human Rights Forum<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"7vu1i-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7vu1i-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7vu1i-0-0\">Freedom Initiative<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"9ivko-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9ivko-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9ivko-0-0\">Human Rights Watch<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"arbor-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"arbor-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"arbor-0-0\">PEN America<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"2j1r5-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2j1r5-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2j1r5-0-0\">Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2j1r5-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2j1r5-0-0\">Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"au1lb\" data-offset-key=\"dqltb-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dqltb-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dqltb-0-0\">Sinai Foundation for Human rights<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 23, 2021 Human Rights Concerns Following the US-Egypt Strategic Dialogue \u00a0 Dear Secretary Blinken, Our organizations write to you in response to the disappointing US-Egypt Strategic Dialogue held on November 8-9 in Washington, DC. 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