Although France chose to ignore human rights violations in Egypt and give preference to the language of interests, the human rights situation followed Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi during his visit to France through several means, including a protest stand organized by Egyptian and French activists Monday evening in front of the French Parliament.
The coalition for the defense of democracy in Egypt, the Association for Rights and Justice Without Borders, the Coalition for Women for Human Rights, the Free Voice Organization, the International Academy for Rights and Development, the Christian Association Against Torture, and the French Jewish Federation for Peace participated in organizing the stand. French President Emmanuel Macron with his Egyptian guest at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
The participants, some of them members of the Egyptian community in France, raised Egyptian flags and banners bearing expressions rejecting Sisi's visit to Paris and others denouncing human rights violations in Egypt, chanting slogans rejecting Sisi's rule and exposing the violations committed by the regime against detainees in prisons and denouncing manifestations of impoverishment and humiliation for all Egyptian people. .
Al-Sisi arrived in Paris on Sunday evening and met with Macron the next day, where the official spokesperson for the Egyptian Presidency said that the meeting dealt with ways to enhance bilateral cooperation frameworks between the two countries at various levels, including efforts to enhance military cooperation, armament, training, exchange of technical expertise and conduct joint exercises. In addition to attracting French tourism to Egyptian destinations, and increasing trade exchange between Egypt and France.
Rejected visit
On the sidelines of the stand, the media spokesman for the Coalition for Defense of Democracy in France, Zanati Abu Hussein, confirmed that the stand was an expression of rejection of Sisi's visit to France.
In special statements to Al-Jazeera Net, he stressed the rejection of hundreds of political and human rights figures for this visit, and their condemnation of this "French collusion with the revolutionary Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi," as he described it.
He added, "Human rights organizations and institutions supporting freedoms will continue to reject this coup, and will work to pursue and prosecute him for what he committed against the Egyptians."
Trap for Macron
For his part, French human rights activist Francois Derouche considered, during his participation in the vigil, that Sisi's visit is a trap for French President Macron, who thinks that he asked the head of a large Islamic Arab state to come to get him out of his predicament when he spoke with racism against Islam.
Derouche added: Macron thinks that Sisi will save him, but he fell into a big trap because Sisi is a person whom the Egyptian and French citizens hate as well, and everyone knows that he is a criminal who will be punished by history and tried if international courts do not prosecute him.
France's values
For his part, Tunisian human rights activist Hassan Akrami told Al-Jazeera Net, "We denounce that human rights are merely an arm and slogans to achieve the interests of superpowers only. We are against raising human rights in France in a functional way, and we remind Macron that they are sacred and not discussed."
Al-Akrami stressed that Macron's reception of Sisi contradicts the principles of the French Republic and contradicts freedom and justice. Thus, Macron chose to be on the side of dictatorship and oppression, and was not on the side of the Egyptian people and their just causes.
Al-Sisi's crimes are indelible
. As for the political activist and member of the French coalition Ibrahim Al-Qadi, he stressed that Sisi's visit is totally rejected, as the crimes committed by Sisi cannot be erased because they are crimes against humanity.
Speaking to Al-Jazeera Net, the judge stressed that it is difficult for Macron to bleach the page of Sisi, because what he has done is considered crimes that will continue to haunt him.
Popular movements
In turn, the coordinator of the Global Coalition of Egyptians Abroad, Mustafa Ibrahim, confirmed that the protest in front of the headquarters of the French Parliament comes within the framework of popular movements and civil society institutions to reject Sisi's visit to France.
Ibrahim added, in his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, that the stand was preceded by more than 20 direct speeches to the office of the President of the French Parliament, the Parliament's Foreign Relations Committee and the heads of parliamentary blocs represented in Parliament, which dealt with what was confirmed by international human rights reports on human rights violations in Egypt, and that "the Egyptian judicial system It is nothing but a tool that Sisi uses to abuse his opponents, "which led to the increase in the number of detainees to more than 60 thousand detainees, according to the monitoring of human rights organizations.
The letter also made clear to the French parliament representatives that human rights reports monitored the death of more than 760 detainees as a result of medical negligence inside Egyptian prisons and detention centers, and other violations committed by the regime against Egyptians.
About 20 non-governmental organizations announced the organization of another demonstration today, in front of the French Parliament, to denounce the "strategic partnership" between Egypt and France under the slogan of "fighting terrorism."
"We are amazed to see France laying the red carpet to a dictator, while today there are more than 60,000 prisoners of conscience in Egypt," said Antoine Madeleine, an official at the International Federation for Human Rights - one of the organizations calling for the demonstration.