{"id":641449,"date":"2017-09-24T04:10:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T04:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/09\/24\/egypt-human-rights-in-western-media-spotlight\/"},"modified":"2017-09-24T04:10:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T04:10:50","slug":"egypt-human-rights-in-western-media-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/09\/24\/egypt-human-rights-in-western-media-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt human rights in western media spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Egypt human rights in western media spotlight: <\/strong>Human rights in Egypt were in the western press\u2019 spotlight this weekend after the UN named Egypt one of a record 29 countries that \u201chave retaliated in the past year against citizens who cooperate with the United Nations,\u201d<\/strong> the organization\u2019s human rights office said last week, according to Reuters<\/a>. Saudi Arabia, China, India, the UAE, Venezuela, and Cuba are among the other countries listed by the UN where \u201cpeople communicating with the rights body had been abducted, detained, held incommunicado, or had disappeared,\u201d UN Assistant Human Rights Secretary General Andrew Gilmour said. The Hill also features an opinion piece on the same topic<\/a> by contributor Aayah Hossam and The Sunday Times<\/a> says that the \u201clawyer for murdered [Italian] student Giulio Regeni [is being] tortured in Egypt.\u201d<\/p>\n

The US administration should sanction Egypt-based terror groups Hasm and Liwaa <\/strong>Al-Thawra<\/strong> to confirm its commitment to fighting terror in spite of withholding military aid to Egypt, Jonathan Schanzer writes for the New York Post<\/a>. While critics may point out that the move is an indirect sanction on the Ikhwan \u2014 which Egypt says is the root organization of Hasm and Liwaa Al-Thawra \u2014 Schanzer says it would be a smart move on America\u2019s part to control the Ikhwan\u2019s overtly violent factions.<\/p>\n

Egypt\u2019s tourism sector is definitely on the mend, but it\u2019s not healing fast enough<\/strong> for the thousands of shopkeepers and bazar owners who had made their living selling tourist trinkets and souvenirs, AFP\u2019s Bassem Aboulabass says<\/a>. Tourists are bound to return to Egypt, as this gradual recovery that saw receipts climb 54% in 7M2017 has shown, Omar Al Ubaydli writes for The National<\/a>. Recent research has also shown that terrorism \u201crarely destroys tourism for good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also worth a skim this morning:<\/p>\n