Washington Post: Abdel Fatah al-Sissi has re-created the authoritarian regime that Mr. Mubarak headed, only in a far more repressive form. Since the coup he led 17 months ago, the regime has killed more than 1,000 people — including a slaughter of protesters in a Cairo square that, according to Human Rights Watch, was “one of the world’s largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history.” It has stifled the relatively free press that Mr. Mubarak allowed, cracked down on non-government groups that he tolerated and arrested peaceful Muslim Brotherhood politicians who, during the previous regime, held seats in parliament.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 23:07:40 +0000
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