In a joint letter, 12 international and Egyptian human rights organizations called on the European Union to put pressure on Egypt to make a change in the human rights file, and to take measures towards what it described as Egypt’s “ignoring” of this file.
The organizations – which include Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders – called on the European Union to set clear criteria for negotiating a new partnership with Egypt, adding that the situation “is not sustainable.”
The European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council will discuss next Monday, January 25, the latest developments in Egypt, among other issues, and that meeting coincides with the tenth anniversary of the 25th of January Egyptian revolution.
In a joint letter to the European Union, human rights organizations condemned what they described as the Union’s failure to take any measures to address the human rights situation in Egypt.
The organizations indicated that the year 2020 witnessed an unprecedented increase in the issuance of death sentences, in trials that they described as “not meeting the basic standards for achieving justice.”
