CAIRO: Egypt lashed out on Tuesday at a Human Rights Watch report condemning “flagrant human rights abuses” during the first year of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s rule, dismissing it as “politicised”.The watchdog released its report on the first anniversary of the inauguration of Sisi, who was sworn in on June
By our correspondents
June 10, 2015
CAIRO: Egypt lashed out on Tuesday at a Human Rights Watch report condemning “flagrant human rights abuses” during the first year of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s rule, dismissing it as “politicised”. The watchdog released its report on the first anniversary of the inauguration of Sisi, who was sworn in on June 8, 2014, after having ousted his Islamist predecessor Mohammed Mursi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, in July 2013. “The report is politicised and lacks the basic rules of precision and objectivity,” the foreign ministry said in a statement, accusing HRW of victimising Egypt. The report reflected HRW’s “endorsement of terrorist operations and supports those who carry out acts of violence”, charged the ministry. It accused the New York-based group of “leading a systematic campaign against Egypt”. HRW charged on Monday that “over the past year, Sisi and his cabinet have provided near total impunity for security force abuses and issued a raft of laws that severely curtailed civil and political rights”. Since Mursi’s ouster, thousands of his supporters have faced a brutal government crackdown that has left hundreds killed in street protests and thousands jailed.
