Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has attracted criticism for detaining political opponents. | Pool photo by Yves Herman President Joe Bide
President Joe Biden will press human rights issues in a bilateral meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Friday, with senior administration officials telling reporters on a call Tuesday that the U.S. has “raised repeated concerns” about jailed activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah.
The news: Biden will meet with El-Sisi on the sidelines of the COP27 U.N. climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, where the host country has attracted criticism for detaining political opponents.
Abd El-Fattah’s case has attracted global attention, with his health deteriorating amid a 200-plus day hunger strike. A prominent figure in the 2011 uprising in Egypt, Abd El-Fattah has mostly been in prison since the mid-2010s for dissent. He was sentenced to five more years in prison last December.
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