Question for David Cameron: What should Egyptian democracy look like?
Does it look like President Sisi?
Does it look like President Sisi?
Tony Blair’s support for the Egyptian military puts the lie to the former prime minister’s repeated declarations of support for democracy and human rights.
The UK government should make any further economic and military support to Egypt conditional on the return to democracy.
When President Mubarak was forced from power in February 2011, many of the revolutionaries in Tahrir Square thought that the future of Egypt looked bright for the kind of Western secular liberal values many of them had championed.
Recently we’ve seen the emergence of another kind of autocrat. Neither democrat nor dictator, this type of leader holds regular elections and in some cases even introduces ostensibly progressive policies.
As Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi moves to grant himself broad powers over the judiciary, Quilliam’s Maajid Nawaz poses serious questions of his motives.
Egypt is braced for mass rallies after President Mohamed Mursi, fresh from brokering the Gaza ceasefire, passed a decree giving himself sweeping new powers.