"Since we started our uprising against dictatorship in Egypt last January, many British officials visited Cairo and asked how they could help our struggle. The most important thing that the British can do to support human rights in Egypt is to support human rights in the United Kingdom. We have all heard of your government’s attempt to repeal the UK’s Human Rights Act. Diluting current human rights protections or restricting fundamental rights to citizens rather than humans, would set us all back. It is significantly more difficult for us to fight for universal human rights in our country, if your country publicly walks away from the same universal rights."
Hossam Bahgat, Executive Director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (and veteran of the Tahir Square Uprising of 2011)
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