Egypt: Planned Presidential Vote Neither Free Nor Fair
(World News Egypt)

Expand Members of the presidential campaign of Egypt`s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi count boxes containing his new presidential candidacy papers at the National Election Authority, which is in charge of supervising the 2018 presidential election in Cairo, Egypt, January 24, 2018. © 2018 Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (Beirut) - The Egyptian government has trampled over even the minimum requirements for free and fair elections for the planned March 26-28, 2018 vote for president, fourteen international and regional rights organizations said today. The government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has relentlessly stifled basic freedoms and arrested potential candidates and rounded up their...