You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

U.S. Unfreezes $195 Million in Military Aid to Egypt

HeadlineJul 30, 2018

The Trump administration has lifted restrictions on $195 million in military aid for Egypt that it had previously withheld over concerns about Egypt’s human rights record. This comes as an Egyptian court sentenced 75 people to death for participating in a 2013 sit-in protesting the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi. More than 1,000 protesters were killed when soldiers opened fire on the sit-in protest in Cairo. Egypt’s Parliament has approved a law that could give senior military commanders immunity from future prosecution over the deadly crackdown.

Topics:
The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

Non-commercial news needs your support

We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
Please do your part today.
Make a donation
Top