In this June 2, 2018, file photo provided by Egypt's Presidency Media Office, Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi delivers a speech after he was sworn in for a second four-year term in Cairo. By Emily Tamkin Emily Tamkin Reporter covering foreign affairs Email Bio Follow April 9 at 9:39 AM When Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi came to the White House two years ago, President Trump assured him, and everyone else who would listen, that the United States supported him.
Sissi will be returning to the White House for a visit with Trump on Tuesday. This time, lawmakers in both chambers and on both sides of the aisle have made clear that they expect the president to raise certain issues with the man who led the 2013 military overthrow of democratically elected Islamist President Mohamed Morsi and assumed the presidency himself the following year.
The signatories close with a reminder of the need for “a frank and open dialogue with our strategic partner.” Of the constitutional amendments, Malinowski said last month, “It is a statement to the young people of the country: that none of you matter, that there is only one person who can hold power, only one generation that can hold power.”
Going to push someone who separated children from parents, has no clue where they are on human rights
Isn't it rather hypocritical when BOTH parties are not pushing for human rights in the US? That whole do as I say and not as I do, hmm?
Why would he? When he’s trying to do the same things to us
Yeaaaah....
I don't think trump is that stupid he probably would look for away to work with SISI that would not further course choas in North africa
I would like for President to pay attention to his own human rights issues!
Realpolitik ... let’s not further destabilize North Africa . Egypt has been a long standing ally in the region.
Proposed to the Egyptian president to release members of the Muslim Brotherhood from Egyptian prisons and send them to America
Trump won't
Human Rights? The Trump administration doesn't believe humans have rights.