Biden to press human rights in meeting with Egyptian president
The U.S. has "raised repeated concerns" about a jailed activist.
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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.
"We have and will continue to urge the Egyptian government to release political prisoners and undertake human rights-related legal reforms," a senior administration official said. "In the case of Alaa Abd El-Fattah, we remain concerned about that case and the reported condition of his health and we have raised repeated concerns about his case and his conditions in detention with the government of Egypt.”
