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Terrorism has had an expansive impact on Egyptian culture and politics in the last century. With terror activity being somewhat regular in current president Sisi's Egypt, the general fear of terrorism has allowed President Sisi to imprison political dissidents, journalists, and others that could supplant him from his current seat. Regular Egyptian citizens, children, have been imprisoned and tortured by Sisi's police force. To achieve this, President Sisi has enacted laws with loose definitions of "terrorist" and "terrorist activity" that can be expanded to include actions of any who may oppose him. Those same laws waive rights to trial and legal representation under the justification of a state-of-emergency. The current unlawful detainment of prisoners has been reported on by the Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and other international nonprofit organizations. This example of false imprisonment mirrors the treatment of the Uighur muslims in Xinjiang, China. China's genocidal acts have gone undisciplined by the United Nations due to a large body of support from its allies, but because Egypt does not hold as much sway over the United Nations as China does, the United Nations may be able to take meaningful actions to protect unlawfully imprisoned Egyptians. Unfortunately, Egypt was among the many countries which supported China's genocidal acts in a statement drafted in the United Nations. This international support for another example of unlawful imprisonment drives the belief that there are enough countries that commit these atrocities to stifle any international effort to halt human rights abuses. |
