The US Congress may review whether it should tamp down its concerns over Egypt’s human rights record in exchange for getting the North African country to upend arms deals with Russia and instead seek American weapons, a recent congressional report has suggested.

The Egyptian government has announced that it will evict all residential houseboats on the River Nile by tomorrow, after giving just six days’ notice.

The EU has been called out for watering down criticism of their ally Egypt following an EU-Egypt Association Council meeting last week.

UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Tuesday said she was seeking a meeting with her Egyptian counterpart to secure the release of a jailed activist who has been on hunger strike since April.

Egypt’s coastguard is set to receive €80 million ($84.2 million) from the EU to prevent boats carrying asylum seekers from leaving its shores for Europe.

The European Union and its member states should stop supporting the Egyptian government’s brutal rule and set concrete human rights benchmarks as criteria for progress in relations, Human Rights Watch said today. Egypt’s foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, is expected to meet with the EU foreign affairs High Representative Josep Borrell …

To: Josep Borrell, High Representative for Foreign Affairs / Vice-President of the European Commission Foreign Ministers of the EU member states Brussels, May 25, 2022 RE: Joint NGO letter ahead of EU-Egypt Association Council meeting

The UN human rights chief has said she appreciates the “positive steps” taken by the Egyptian president “to advance human rights.”

Policies implemented by the Egyptian government at the Rafah border crossing to Gaza have “exacerbated” human rights conditions, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss loves to voice her support for what she calls “freedom and democracy”.