the results were hardly surprising. there were technically two candidates but the other candidate mr most optimistic was in fact the supporter who had stepped into the contest at the eleventh hour to prevent the embarrassment of a one horse race. three men from within the military establishment had initially challenge how seizing for the presidency in a very short space of time all three candidates were dispensed with by at the c.c. regime sonny a not a retired general was charged with breaching military regulations. on lead counsel was a little known army colonel was court martialed and ahmed shafik a former air force commander withdrew from the race after being held in a luxury hotel for a month. before the president and c.c. expressed regrets that no one was willing to run against him but the situation

became increasingly embarrassing for kairos partners in the west. parts of the us government were communicating to sisi into those around him that we were concerned about his efforts to drive out every credible pawn and to his reelection i think it may even have been addressed by vice president and spun he went to cairo earlier and twenty eight team so that message was being conveyed. with no real contest the main focus for sisi became obtaining legitimacy to a high voter turnout. people were promised that they would get pilgrimage to mecca or they would get an approved electricity supply in their town or they would get and use water system.

thank you bill for the little letter. i did. this with thanks. in twenty eleven the revolution in tahrir square put an end to hosni mubarak's thirty year regime and raised hopes that egypt would become the middle east largest democracy. but this so-called arab spring was short lived. since taking power in twenty thirty l.c.c. has ruled the country amid allegations of human rights violations as well as an escalation in armed attacks in the sinai peninsula that have killed more than three thousand people. egypt is a key u.s. ally and a major european business partner western countries are often accused of overlooking

egypt's human rights record and its disregard of the rule of law because of the country's geo political economic and strategic importance. a case in point is that of an italian ph d. student from the university of cambridge julio regime who disappeared in cairo on the twenty fifth of january twenty sixth. the young italian was found dead nine days later in a ditch on the city's outskirts his half naked body bore the signs of heavy torture . in all pastoral care the toilet or toward the. northeast i mean it as to what ed of am and what it on another. but only come out of this one out.

there on the prophecy that keynes they are and. the day regime went missing a major security operation was underway in cairo to control protests marking the fifth anniversary of the revolution. the italian authorities suspected that regime he had been arrested that night but the egyptian government denied any responsibility. there was a whole range of lurid details of a fright that rejoined he was the victim of a car crash and later accounts of marriage in the press that julia a jenny was gay even though he wasn't and that he'd been killed by a gay lover and there were suggestions that he had been taking drugs and this was probably a drug deal that had gone wrong. you know and then i

maybe at the end they came out on the shuttle italia my sing out and on every battle not every battle that gets any and i sort of them and they. counted the colaba out of their time in danger and i think that. interior minister maggoty abdullah gul dismissed western suspicions. and yeah yeah yeahs i don't know why but you can be a good and done service as more than he has and i don't know most of the laws in the in this hour shift well let me answer that as. six weeks into the investigation the egyptians said they had found reaching these killers claiming that they were part of a guy they kidnapped foreigners. a group of four men were traveling in a small minivan according to their wives to do a construction job on an apartment. out this year. approached

a police checkpoint the police opened fire and killed everybody inside. later that afternoon the police officers went to the homes of these people and lo and behold what they find but time julio jennie's personal effect. but just twenty four hours later the interior ministry was forced to admit that those men had nothing to do with regime is murder. a level of the nost investing that they have all due to some of the concept that sakic after sauna came touting what. was it at the other foot i asked the command enjoy it when the other man that kicked the sauna came off a child then as has a critic i documented in judea. polygyny had been in egypt researching trade unions including the use of the local street

vendors. a year after his death suspicions emerged that one of the leaders of the street vendors union was a police informant he had become convinced that regina was a spy. and surely oh. so you are really such a lot of money. down upon time into all. that it put in the right mentor only coming out of. the union leader wanted regime here to incriminate himself and pushed for compromising topics like foreign funded political activism. term usually there are limits to the way for news deep in my sharia my son to get to that well and certainly not initially on the ball. with you less than i hug and c and c s i bet. you call it an age real clinton.

just the quote on the back as he shook it up at all in on. the thought it came out of fear that. i could now be the muscle to. sit. i know it is. time to deal with the man mountain ek. that he knew that that meant that it also can we can imagine ek with any other pick if he knew. someone imagining for the main. point that they're. after. the union leader reported regime new to the security services just days before his disappearance. the egyptian authorities continued to deny any responsibility for his death. so there are a janney case came at a particularly sensitive moment for aleisha as between egypt and italy because at

that very moment the italian energy company annie was in the process of developing the largest gas field in the eastern mediterranean called zohar in conjunction with egypt. went on its own is something game changes have been a neat thing when she took the diminutive that was a school bag. for geology given that if i started i would want to be plays an important energy i want you plays if you know meant it will show these friday he probably does only domestically dinner just one provision of the song gas field is also a major source of profit for and worth an estimated six point four billion dollars to the gas giant it was in any use interest as well as in theses interests to achieve a rapid resolution of this case and for those of a project could go ahead. the political

stalemate caused by regime is murder came to an end when it's only sent a new ambassador to cairo. she had been shot the. sea of the moon shot zara she. diploma i said she. politique a few new phone off. she finally passed around the whole meticulous medium or i'm going to lunch at the mental ability that was to give is rank and file to do anything with phantom interbank to take an idea out of all i'm given on the phone. basically did resume diplomatic relations with egypt about three or four months before the software project came online and since then you know the project has been a great success by all accounts. part of the goal normally go. out and d.-day logy ligi doing good ality and indeed l.a.

in the aid of it all it was. the cheney vader in fida maine debut both dane de de la motte of. talk day in. years have passed since julio regime is murder in twenty sixteen in italy and elsewhere many people are still waiting for the truth. for many egyptians what happened to the regime he did not come as a surprise his human rights organizations estimate that in egypt at least three hundred and twenty three people have died in custody since twenty thirteen. sixty thousand have been arrested on political charges and over fifteen thousand

civilians have faced military trials including one hundred fifty children. what has come to be called enforced disappearance is an every day occurrence. it doesn't want to. be there for the yam as a bell by the in his heart of any of it and in the lower myself and the how. adam had a block cunt and i think you're an outward in and my fish affect. me all the fullness and sebag and i should know that i've been so mad mad about going to europe and so on and if an insect with as it were the demanded if i mean the arctic a city hall or a couple seven in obesity and said if you let me have a quarter. million with me let me know if you know this but it's only so moment. went out with them i did a little at the collateral door. lives in

berlin in twenty fifty he was working in germany as a surgeon when he returned to egypt for a visit. and the commander as my getting it done from the bottom must whiting in the wet and miss out on a.s.s. . when i had it was shipped to market neck for what a mess and i was on a higher. mark made and his friends organized a flash mob in cairo with banners calling for the release of political prisoners here my mom was about what fifteen sharply let's go for any list are you typing that i should have said it was so or. dissolve it a little but even when i shot him i had. a lot of heart will go out. on the twenty fourth hole prokofiev hole helena husband what you all on the other

hero well or in with fake a strange way are. better off letting. people. karabo yanni find out to know that when they leave yet and out how they're out how your tally is and when i go work i thank them and. mad was found guilty of protesting without a permit and was sent to the infamous are locked up a prison a maximum security penitentiary reserved for so-called terrorists arguments for and mocked is a physician active in the egyptian medical syndicate and i are from the other fifty nine and i would not allow that and i'll be machine and i if i'm not they are mad. been. can i go to. bed bad time ali hogmanay.

senate in. her is an outspoken critic of the medical neglect of detainees in egypt. in time of going faint and then method. of command lament that. we can feed him and beat him to the f.t. an intern widely that would have had no one at the head of them that. we. have been with believe in man fashion with. just two months after arguments arrest was also arrested. the older that an atomic an image of the moon. have that no ball that all of them would have.

a negative in there not. them again but if you had to view how little attention off the men are. even one. of say and what would you are one of the i mean shit. but somehow it blew up to be stuck in one home i share my. whole. being you are. limited. they also are. hiking again you are going to solve is in order and.

you know what it looks. fit if they don't have them if that's. what did you mean of the letter feel what the election much what i bet i did then the. madam but i'll be the high the apollo my you we heard all week at different beginning of the year we got a lot of you thanks to an international campaign highlighting his case our common side was released after one year in prison he now lives in germany. the one it's in that regard most close to one of the mothers are going to have that other mother shug on the on the floor on the money under pressure some with the last roll of oil meals ready for the infamous. was freed after seven months and now lives in france. and i both at the mouth of

break leave make any action thinking i'm a fish myself mignonne i'm a thing even in a billion the time and money my fucked up most of the back of the bible as if the out in left a new family in the monk another of the mill of the apartment and then if. we become a national. one of the magazines and only. with internet what in santa. only the one i don't know what. i'm doing i'm a man and i'm a moderate and. michelle awkwardly rest of neck and neck. documenting human rights violations has become very dangerous in egypt. since twenty thirty over five hundred online news outlets have been shut down eight

journalists have been killed while covering demonstrations i did least thirty two journalists some bloggers are currently detained some facing possible death penalties said short. mostly wedding of a child they thought. that bush but it. didn't so with the military and also. to say we have and then ours. and i think it's. a good deal that he would have been pretty good if he knew that there were many more the. police that he did maybe thirty or through other than one.