Continued rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran is a net positive for the region (and the world). The White House's recent consideration of a security guarantee for Saudi as part of a 'megadeal' risks jeopardizing these critical but delicate steps.

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I am deeply concerned by the sentencing of Mohamed Adel in Egypt to four years in prison on spurious charges. Mohamed has been imprisoned for exercising his basic human rights—I call on the government of Egypt to release him and Egypt's other prisoners of conscience immediately.

🚨 Saudi fitness instructor Manahel al-Otaibi, who is being tried before the SCC for not wearing an abaya and tweeting under feminist hashtags, has been held in solitary confinement with no air conditioning for more than a week. #FreeManahel

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Harrowing news from Egypt.

This past Wednesday (August 30), Mahmoud Hussein, popularly known as the 't-shirt detainee' for having been arrested in 2014 for wearing a t-shirt with the slogan 'A Nation Without Torture', was re-arrested at a checkpoint on his way back to Cairo.

We agree with Congressman Meeks: reports of Saudi Arabia's brutal mass murder of Ethiopian migrants at the border must be thoroughly investigated. America's allies must be held to higher standards.

In Egypt, a voice of protest is jailed. End the carousel of repression. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

4⃣ years ago today, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate Seif Fateen, reappeared in #Egypt after 9 months of enforced disappearance.

4⃣ years later, he remains unjustly detained and has yet to be convicted of a single crime.

It's time to speak up. Join us in telling #Egypt to #FreeSeifFateen

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Another instance of utilizing proxy punishment to target Egyptian journalists in exile, as a part of the Egyptian regime's strategy of #transnationalrepression . CPJ's statement on the arrest of the father of freelance journalist in exile Ahmed Gamal Ziada أحمد جمال زيادة .cpj.org/2023/08/egypti…

ألقت أجهزة الأمن في الثانية من صباح اليوم القبض على الصحفي كريم أسعد، أحد أعضاء فريق تحرير منصة «متصدقش»، من منزله بمدينة الشروق، بعد مداهمة منزله والاعتداء عليه وزوجته بالضرب والسب، وتهديدهما بابنهما، والولوج إلى حسابات المنصة وحذف منشورين يتعلقان بهوية المصريين الموجودين…

V interesting in light of upcoming State Department decision on whether to withhold $320mn in military aid to Egypt. Though conditioned on rights progress, the money is usually released on national security grounds. Egypt's position on Ukraine should certainly complicates that.

Wonderful news that Bilal has arrived safely in Canada!

Two men have been detained in Bahrain and risk being deported back to Egypt, where they'll face almost certain arrest. The latest in a concerning trend in the region, which is increasingly unsafe for dissidents with growing cooperation between authoritarian nations.

India's top court suspends Rahul Gandhi conviction in Modi defamation case thenationalnews.com/world/asia/202…

Today Biden admin announced #GlobalHealthSecurity &DiplomacyBureau, bringing 3 agencies together to focus on intl health security, pandemic prev, trtmt & response. Step 1: Congress reauthorizes & fully funds McGovern-Dole for girls' health. My take here: americanprogress.org/article/mcgove…

Ahmed Hamdi Al-Sayed Suleiman, 26 years old. Today is the forty-second day that there has been no news of him. The National Security Agency called him to come to them, and since then there has been no news of him. Please write and ask where is Ahmed Gika
#احمد_جيكا_فين

NEW: Top US officials in meet MBS in Saudi to talk Israel normalization

• Sullivan, McGurk, Hochstein
• MBS mtg attended by Saudi energy, defense ministers, head of PIF
• Saudi asking for THAAD system
• Defense pact being discussed + nuclear program al-monitor.com/originals/2023…

Yesterday, Senate Appropriators passed the State & Foreign Ops bill in an overwhelmingly bipartisan fashion. The bill's military aid for Egypt contrasts starkly with the House bill and demonstrates growing concern among Senators for the human rights situation in Egypt. A 🧵

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