After years of economic misery, discontent with the regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi could explode into protest in Egypt
After years of economic misery, discontent with the regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi could explode into protest
Days after Assad fled Syria for Russia, Egyptian security forces arrested at least 30 Syrian refugees living in Cairo who were spontaneously celebrating his fall, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a rights group. “2011 is only 14 years away,” said Mirette F Mabrouk, an Egypt expert at the Middle East Institute in Washington, referring to the year of the Egyptian revolution. The Egyptian authorities, she said, “know that things snowball”.
The threat sent Egypt’s TV anchors, who often amplify pro-government talking points on their nightly broadcasts, into an uproar. One host, Ahmed Moussa, called on Syria’s new leaders to act. Such hardships have suffocated a population of about 111 million where nearly one in three already lived in poverty, according to official statistics.
Sisi spent the ensuing years stamping out the Brotherhood in Egypt, viewing it as a threat to his power. Egyptian authorities prosecuted thousands of Brotherhood members and suspected sympathisers, labelling them terrorists, while others have fled the country.
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