Egyptian president says ‘Western’ human rights don’t apply to his country

General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

Human rights and freedoms in Egypt should not be viewed from a “Western perspective”, the country’s president has said in what campaigners have described as "deeply troubling" remarks. Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi told a US delegation that “differences in domestic and regional conditions” in the north African nation made it difficult to apply the same rules regarding civil liberties.  [...] Nicholas Piachaud, an Egypt specialist at Amnesty International, told The Independent: “President Sisi’s reported remarks are deeply troubling, and he should stop making excuses for the authorities’ disturbing human rights crackdown. “There’s nothing remotely ‘Western’ about basic human rights like the right not to suffer torture or to be able to speak freely without fear of arrest and imprisonment.

Gabriel Samuels, "Egyptian president says ‘Western’ human rights don’t apply to his country" Independent 5 May 2016

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