CAIRO – 13 March 2021: The Egyptian House of Representatives urged the 31 member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which prepared a statement criticizing the human rights situation in Egypt, to refrain from politicizing human rights to serve political purposes. “The human rights situation in these countries is often tainted by human rights violations when dealing with their citizens or citizens of other countries, especially discrimination and racism, which are among the worst violations against humans,” the statement read. The House urged the countries that participated in the statement to “not inaugurate themselves as guardians on Egypt”. The Senate said the state has always asked all parties that blame Egypt for human rights abuses to prove their allegations. “It is not OK to present the Egyptian state, with all that it does for the Egyptian people and the stability of the region, as a tyranny.

Source: Libya Today March 13, 2021 21:30 UTC