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President Abdel Fattah El Sisi\u2019s <\/strong>meeting yesterday<\/a><\/strong> with US Secretary of State Mike <\/strong>Pompeo in Berlin is getting a lot of attention in the foreign press.<\/strong> Pompeo \u201cexpressed outrage\u201d<\/a> to the Egyptian president over the death of US citizen Mostafa Kassem<\/a> in Egyptian custody, a State Department spokesperson said. The secretary of state brought up the subject during a meeting on the sidelines of the Libyan peace conference in Berlin yesterday. Kassem\u2019s death after a hunger strike has caused tensions with the US, with several senators<\/a> calling for sanctions on Egypt and Washington\u2019s top Middle East diplomat describing his death as \u201cneedless, tragic and avoidable\u201d (AP<\/a> | AFP<\/a> | Reuters<\/a> | CNN<\/a>). Meanwhile, another opinion piece in the Washington Post<\/a> argues that Kassem\u2019s death proves the ineffectiveness of hunger strikes to pressure some governments.<\/p>\n

Egypt\u2019s human rights record came under scrutiny in Human Rights Watch\u2019s <\/strong>annual<\/a><\/strong>World Report 2020<\/a><\/strong>, which criticized last year\u2019s constitutional amendments<\/a> that extended presidential terms to six years, among other things. The report also pointed to rights violations by Daesh in North Sinai, saying some of them \u201camount to war crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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