#human rights strategy
The United States will deduct EGP 2.5 billion (USD 130 million) from Egypt’s EGP 5.7 billion (USD 300 million) annual foreign military aid due to the Biden administration’s concerns over Egypt’s human rights conditions, according to an unnamed US official interviewed by Reuters. Despite acknowledgement by US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, over Egypt’s recent trends in releasing hundreds of detainees and prisoners, the US official explained that certain human rights conditions are yet to be met amid pressures from…
