State Department not Monitoring Human Rights in Sisi's Egypt

As archeologists are given free hand to demand the repatriation of items seized from collectors to the repressive military regime of Egypt, we learn that government overreach goes even further in the case of this state. The State Department's database for reporting human rights violators in Egypt has not been updated since the 2013 coup.

The US is not sufficiently vetting the sale of weapons to the repressive government of Egypt, and doesn’t know enough about how those weapons are being used – including night vision goggles and riot control weapons. According to a new report by the Government Accountability Office, the State Department also fails to consistently conduct legally-required review of the Egyptian forces that are supplied and trained by the U.S. The U.S. government has sent Egypt more than $6.4 billion in military aid since 2011.

The U.S. government has bankrolled the Egyptian military for decades, and this aid did not stop when a military coup deposed Egypt’s new democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi. To skirt a law banning aid to coup regimes, the State Department has refused to call what happened a “coup.”
After the military regime came to power, led by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, it immediately cracked down on protestors and members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the political party of the former president. One morning that August, government forces killed 900 people. In the year that followed, the government detained at least 41,000 people, and sentenced citizens to die hundreds at a time. But U.S. aid continued.