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An English woman was one of several British citizens who joined hundreds of Egyptian protesters angry at Britain's David Cameron rolling out the red carpet for Egypt's dictator Abdel Fatah el-Sisi.

And why did she depict Sisi as "Mickey Mouse" ? Because just the previous month an Egyptian Facebook user had been sentenced to three years in prison for photoshopping a picture of Sisi and adding the mickey mouse ears. But unfortunately repression in Egypt is much much wider than arrests for trying to poke fun at your president.

Sisi's regime has been responsible for the death of hundreds of protesters on the streets, hundreds of disappearances and death sentences, a clampdown on the press and media, trade unions and universities and allowing key Mubarak figures to return to politics and big business.

After disbanding parliament, Sisi's regime decreed that the government could delegate business and construction projects to the military without any tender process and subsequently the Egyptian army has been awarded contracts worth billions of dollars.

Meanwhile anyone who speaks out, whether Islamist or secular, is at risk of arrest or being "disappeared" and currently it is estimated that the country has approximately 40,000 political prisoners.

This is what Human RIghts Watch conclude in their latest country report -

"Egypt’s human rights crisis, the most serious in the country’s modern history, continued unabated throughout 2014. The government consolidated control through constriction of basic freedoms and a stifling campaign of arrests targeting political opponents. Former Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who took office in June, has overseen a reversal of the human rights gains that followed the 2011 uprising. Security forces and an increasingly politicized judiciary—apparently unnerved by rising armed group attacks—invoked national security to muzzle nearly all dissent."

Find out more

About Amr Nohan and his 3 year sentence for attaching "Mickey Mouse" ears to a Sisi photo -

<a href="https://advox.globalvoices.org/2015/10/14/egyptian-facebook-user-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison-for-putting-mickey-mouse-ears-on-sisi/" rel="nofollow">advox.globalvoices.org/2015/10/14/egyptian-facebook-user-...</a>

About Human Rights in Egypt .

<a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/egypt/report-egypt/" rel="nofollow">www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa...</a>

<a href="https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2015/country-chapters/egypt" rel="nofollow">www.hrw.org/world-report/2015/country-chapters/egypt</a>

<a href="https://freedomhouse.org/blog/stopping-egypt-s-downward-spiral-repression-and-instability" rel="nofollow">freedomhouse.org/blog/stopping-egypt-s-downward-spiral-re...</a>

( Freedom House uses one of my photos in its report. )

How to help/Join a campaign -

<a href="http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.org/" rel="nofollow">egyptsolidarityinitiative.org/</a>

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