File:Rabaa al-Adawiya salute during an anti-Sisi demo in London. (22203451593).jpg

القاتل فى لندن - مظاهرة ضد زيارة سيسي

A woman in Lonon gives a rabaa adawiya four finger salute in memory of the hundreds of protesters killed in and around the square of the same name on 14 August 2013 in Cairo.

According to the Egyptian Health Ministry 683 people where killed of whom 593 were civilians and 43 police officers. The Muslim Brotherhood put the death toll at 2,600 while a Human Rights Watch report, following a lengthy investigation, concluded that at least 817 had been killed and probably over one thousand. Four journalists were also shot dead including veteran Sky News cameraman Michael Dean.

It was described by Human Rights Watch as ""one of the world's largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history".

The woman in this photo was participating in a London anti-Sisi protest which was not just by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood but was also attended by a larger number of other activists including members of Sixth April Youth Movement and human rights activists including at least one atheist.

They were demonstrating in Whitehall outside Downing Street against the visit of Egyptian president Abdel Fatah el-Sisi to London on 4th and 5th November 2015 at the invitation of the British prime minister David Cameron. The small red lights in the distance are part of the London Eye by the Thames.

In his enthusiasm to secure lucrative deals for British multinationals and arms exporters, British prime minister David Cameron seems prepared to overlook the human rights abuses of what has become one of the most authoritarian regimes in the Middle East.

Sisi's regime has been responsible for the death of hundreds of protesters on the streets, hundreds of disappearances and death sentences, a clampdown on the press and media, trade unions and universities and allowing key Mubarak figures to return to politics and big business.

After disbanding parliament, Sisi's regime decreed that the government could delegate business and construction projects to the military without any tender process and subsequently the Egyptian army has been awarded contracts worth billions of dollars.

Meanwhile anyone who speaks out, whether Islamist or secular, is at risk of arrest or being "disappeared" and currently it is estimated that the country has approximately 40,000 political prisoners.

This is what Human RIghts Watch conclude in their latest country report -

"Egypt’s human rights crisis, the most serious in the country’s modern history, continued unabated throughout 2014. The government consolidated control through constriction of basic freedoms and a stifling campaign of arrests targeting political opponents. Former Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who took office in June, has overseen a reversal of the human rights gains that followed the 2011 uprising. Security forces and an increasingly politicized judiciary—apparently unnerved by rising armed group attacks—invoked national security to muzzle nearly all dissent."

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<a href="https://freedomhouse.org/blog/stopping-egypt-s-downward-spiral-repression-and-instability" rel="nofollow">freedomhouse.org/blog/stopping-egypt-s-downward-spiral-re...</a>

( Freedom House uses one of my photos in its report. )

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