Michelle Dunne recapped recommendations she made at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission’s congressional hearing on Egypt in a piece for the Carnegie Endowment in which she stresses active engagement, arguing that the US had a strong interest in improved human rights conditions in Egypt as well as a responsibility to press for them.

The Guardian’s readers’ editor, Stephen Pritchard, carried more scathing remarks, but explained he chose to participate in the Sharm El Sheikh World Youth Forum because “it is better to engage in dialogue.”