“Moustafa was as apolitical as it gets,” said Mohamed Soltan, an Egyptian American human rights campaigner who spent four months in prison with Kassem, and was released in 2015. On a trip to Cairo in September 2018, Pence pressed his case with el-Sissi, as well as that of another imprisoned American, Ahmed Etiwy. In April 2017, Trump pressed the Egyptians to release Aya Hijazi, an American aid worker imprisoned in Egypt. Morsi’s family, who had complained for years about inadequate medical treatment in prison, blamed el-Sissi for his death. In August, Human Rights Watch said that Khaled Hassan, an Egyptian American limousine driver imprisoned on terrorism charges, had tried to kill himself in his cell.

Source: bd News24 January 15, 2020 07:29 UTC