{"id":59935,"date":"2023-03-13T11:45:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T10:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dignity.dk\/?p=59935"},"modified":"2024-12-03T12:00:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T11:00:41","slug":"egyptian-human-rights-defenders-appeal-to-danish-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dignity.dk\/en\/news\/egyptian-human-rights-defenders-appeal-to-danish-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian human rights defender\u2019s appeal to Danish PM: Ask President el-Sisi about the torture"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"59935\" class=\"elementor elementor-59935\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0f71676 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0f71676\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a402343\" data-id=\"a402343\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2a9be70 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2a9be70\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>The Danish Prime Minister visits Egypt at a time when torture is systematic in the country\u2019s prisons, says Ahmed Mefreh, exiled Executive Director of the NGO Committee for Justice<\/h4><p>Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen visits Egypt on March 12<sup>th<\/sup> to 14<sup>th<\/sup> for talks with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly.<\/p><p>The agenda includes climate change mitigation and handling of irregular migration.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfjustice.org\/ahmed-mefreh\/\">Ahmed Mefreh<\/a> is the Executive Director of the Egyptian human rights organisation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfjustice.org\">Committee for Justice<\/a>. As an active human rights defender, he had to leave his country and now works from exile. He asks Mette Frederiksen to discuss the widespread torture and the suppression of human rights with Egypt\u2019s authoritarian leaders.<\/p><p>\u00bbHundreds of my colleagues are in Egyptian prisons where they face inhuman and degrading conditions of detention. A large number of them have been tortured. 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