{"id":4513,"date":"2025-10-21T11:32:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egyptianforum.org\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:31:17","slug":"eu-egypt-summit-no-real-partnership-without-respect-for-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egyptianforum.org\/en\/eu-egypt-summit-no-real-partnership-without-respect-for-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"EU-Egypt Summit No Real Partnership Without Respect for Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa hold the \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/meetings\/international-summit\/2025\/10\/22\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">first ever<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d EU-Egypt summit with Egypt\u2019s President Abdelfattah Al-Sisi on 22 October, 12 organizations urge the leaders to recognise the central role of human rights to the summit\u2019s objectives of \u201cshared stability and prosperity\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the March 2024 announcement of the new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/enlargement.ec.europa.eu\/news\/joint-declaration-strategic-and-comprehensive-partnership-between-arab-republic-egypt-and-european-2024-03-17_en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EU-Egypt Strategic and Comprehensive Partnership<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Egyptian authorities\u2019 policies of systematic <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/euromedrights.org\/publication\/new-report-egypts-human-rights-crisis-and-crackdown-on-defenders\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">repression and continued intolerance for peaceful dissent, as well as <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">violations of Egyptians\u2019 economic and social rights have continued without serious course correction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEU leaders should not ignore the many human rights abuses Egyptian people have been suffering under Sisi\u2019s rule\u201d, said Claudio Francavilla, EU Associate Director at Human Rights Watch. \u201cEurope should use its leverage to secure concrete, overdue reforms to ensure the Egyptian government is accountable to its people and committed to respect and fulfill their rights.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Egyptian authorities have recently taken <\/span><b>limited, symbolic measures in the past month<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. These include the release of British-Egyptian activist <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2025\/09\/egypt-prisoner-of-conscience-alaa-abdel-fattah-granted-presidential-pardon-after-six-years-of-unjust-imprisonment\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alaa Abdelfattah<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> after six years of unjust imprisonment for his peaceful activism, and President al-Sisi\u2019s referral of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/documents\/mde12\/8581\/2024\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Code of Criminal Procedures <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bill to Parliament for a limited review, which in turn largely failed to introduce amendments that would bring the bill in line with international law. While such gestures are welcome, the authorities have continued to subject critics to arbitrary detentions, unfair trials and harsh prison sentences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They recently referred <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cihrs.org\/egypt-thousands-referred-to-terrorism-courts-amid-absence-of-fair-trial-safeguards\/?lang=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">around 6,000 people to trial<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in connection with terrorism-related offences in 2025, many solely for exercising their human rights. Enforced disappearance, torture and extrajudicial executions by security forces continue unabated in near-complete impunity; further concerns have arisen over <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/content.forensic-architecture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025.09.16_FA_Mass-Graves-in-Sinai-Report.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reports <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of mass graves in a militarized zone in North Sinai, with no official investigation to date. Egypt\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/egyptianforum.org\/en\/joint-report-on-the-targeting-of-egyptian-human-rights-defenders-in-the-diaspora-years-of-persecution-reprisals-and-deprivation-of-basic-citizenship-rights\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">transnational repression<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tactics have escalated to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cihrs.org\/egypts-diplomatic-missions-weaponized-as-transnational-repression-tool\/?lang=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">weaponization of Egyptian diplomatic missions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> against peaceful protesters, including in some EU member states. Egyptian security forces, funded by the EU, have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/documents\/mde12\/8101\/2024\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">arbitrarily <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">detained and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rpegy.org\/en\/editions\/the-collapse-of-egypts-protection-for-refugees-joint-report-reveals-widespread-systematic-violations-of-the-principle-of-non-refoulement-and-the-right-to-asylum\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">refouled refugees<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and asylum seekers solely for their immigration status.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the Egyptian government received pledges of financing for well <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/dda039b4-a57e-4714-98a9-14bbb85bca51\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">over $50 billion <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from international donors, creditors and investors in 2024-2025, most of which has already been disbursed, the government has still refused to prioritize meeting its <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madamasr.com\/en\/2025\/09\/17\/news\/u\/382473\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">constitutional obligations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for spending on essential public services such as health and education. As the rising cost of living continues to weigh heavily on tens of millions who live in or near poverty, the government\u2019s austerity measures continue, and inadequate social security leaves millions of people in poverty unsupported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhile Egypt\u2019s critical challenges are many, the knowledge and skills of the Egyptian people are even more numerous. If Egyptian leaders halt their repression and respect the human rights of Egypt\u2019s population to freely and critically discuss their nation\u2019s needs, they are fully capable of identifying and advancing the solutions Egypt needs to build a more promising future that reverses decades of crises, poverty, and emigration,\u201d said Timothy Kaldas, Deputy Director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The co-signing organizations urge the EU leaders to use the opportunity of the Strategic Partnership with Egypt to push for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/middle-east-north-africa\/egypt\/helping-egypt-weather-gaza-wars-impact\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">structural reforms necessary<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to protect, respect and fulfil the economic, social, civil and political rights of people in Egypt, including by tackling widespread human rights violations, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticeproject.org\/rule-of-law-index\/country\/2023\/Egypt%2C%20Arab%20Rep.\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">corruption and lack of transparency<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bti-project.org\/en\/reports\/country-report\/EGY#pos4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lack of domestic scrutiny<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> over the government's policies, which<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swp-berlin.org\/en\/publication\/country-level-politics-around-the-sdgs#hd-d62351e2370\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hinder meaningful economic reform<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and accountability.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEgypt cannot afford to wait another two years until the next summit to engage reforms in hopes of averting both another cycle of economic and financial crisis, and the persistent risk of upheaval in response to brutal, widespread repression and hardship. Egypt\u2019s allies need to urge President Al-Sisi to give people space to debate State policies: open the public sphere by lifting restrictions on the media, civil society, free speech and political parties, end arbitrary arrests and fast-track a mass release of political prisoners based on human rights criteria,\u201d said Samar Elhusseiny, Director of the Egyptian Human Rights Forum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Background:<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the EU for a \u20ac1 billion macro-financial assistance (MFA) operation on 29 June 2024, the Egyptian authorities failed to take <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cconcrete and credible steps towards respecting effective democratic mechanisms, including a multi-party parliamentary system, and the <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticeproject.org\/rule-of-law-index\/country\/2023\/Egypt%2C%20Arab%20Rep.\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rule of law<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and guaranteeing respect for human rights\u201d, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which the EU set as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/eli\/dec\/2024\/1144\/oj\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">preconditions <\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0for the MFA<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Yet Egypt still <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/south.euneighbours.eu\/news\/european-commission-provides-e1-billion-in-macro-financial-assistance-to-egypt\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">received <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">those funds by the end of 2024. The second, \u20ac4 billion MFA operation was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/TXT\/?uri=CELEX:32025D1267\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">approved <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the EU Council and Parliament in June 2025, followed by negotiations over the related MoU; as of October 2025, it is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/manassa.news\/en\/news\/27815\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reportedly <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">finalized.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>SIGNATORIES<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANKH Association<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Egyptian Human Rights Forum (EHRF)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EgyptWide for Human Rights\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EuroMed Rights\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Human Rights Watch\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Law and Democracy Support Foundation (LDSF)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Refugees Platform in Egypt (RPE)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa hold the \u201cfirst ever\u201d EU-Egypt summit with Egypt\u2019s President Abdelfattah Al-Sisi on 22 October, 12 organizations urge the leaders to recognise the central role of human rights to the summit\u2019s objectives of \u201cshared stability and prosperity\u201d. 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