#US senator blocks $650 million aid package to #Egypt over rights abuses
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Egyptians react outside the courtroom in Egypt’s southern province of Minya after an Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and other alleged Islamists to death on April 28, 2014. (Photo: AFP -Khaled Desouki) Egyptians react outside the courtroom in Egypt’s southern province of Minya after an Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and other alleged Islamists to death on April 28, 2014. (Photo: AFP -Khaled Desouki)
A senior US senator has moved to block hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Egypt to protest the death sentences imposed on nearly 700 suspected Islamists. Denouncing Egypt’s “dictatorship run amok” and its “egregious violation of human rights,” (...)