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The new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ben Cardin (D-Md.), has sent an important message to Egypt about its abuse of human rights. The senator declared he would block $235 million in foreign military assistance that the Biden administration approved only weeks ago, and that he would seek to prohibit future military aid and arms sales if Egypt “does not take concrete, meaningful and sustainable steps” to improve human rights conditions. Sign up for the Prompt 2024 newsletter for opinions on the biggest questions in politics Egypt’s president, Abdel Fatah El-Sisi, needs to listen. For too long, the retired general has escaped accountability for turning Egypt into a dungeon, holding tens of thousands of political prisoners and relentlessly suppressing free speech and expression. One of the most recent cases was the unwarranted arrest and imprisonment of Hisham Kassem, a prominent democracy activist, opposition organizer and former publisher. Mr. Kassem, an advocate for independent journalism in Egypt who criticized Mr. Sisi’s military rule at a time when Egypt is in a deep economic crisis, was sentenced in September to six months in prison for libel and slander against a former cabinet minister and for verbally assaulting officers at a police station. Follow Editorial Board's opinions Follow The case is just a sliver of the vast, decade-long assault on civil society in Egypt, which includes the use of pretrial detention to hold protesters, journalists and dissidents for long periods without ever initiating formal charges. Mr. Sisi presides over a rotating system of rights violations, in which he releases some of those imprisoned and then arrests more. He has also attempted to whitewash the continuing repression by announcing a “National Dialogue” with the opposition that activists say has excluded any discussion of human rights.Under law, $320 million of U.S. foreign military aid to Egypt is conditioned on improvement in its human rights record. The criteria include: protecting “freedoms of expression, association, and peaceful assembly”; allowing independent media, civil society and human rights defenders “to function without interference”; and “releasing political prisoners and providing detainees with due process of law.” The Biden administration said Sept. 14 it would issue a national security waiver allowing Egypt to receive $235 million of the conditioned aid, withholding only $85 million. The announcement Saturday by Mr. Cardin, and a parallel statement by Gregory Meeks (N.Y.), the ranking Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, effectively blocks the $320 million. Overall, Egypt receives $1.3 billion a year from the United States, one of the largest U.S. aid recipients. Skip to end of carousel Also on the Editorial Board’s agenda arrow leftarrow right Lawyers plead guilty in racketeering case in Fulton County, Ga. The Biden administration announces more than $100 million to improve maternal health. Wisconsin Republicans back off impeachment threat against justice. Bahrain’s hunger strike ends, for now, after concessions to prisoners. A Saudi court sentences a retired teacher to death based on tweets. Attorneys for Donald Trump have pleaded guilty in the racketeering case led by Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani T. Willis. Even those lawyers related to the deals focused on equipment-tampering in rural Coffee County are relevant to the former president — they help to establish the “criminal enterprise” of which prosecutors hope to prove Mr. Trump was the head. The news is a sign that the courts might be the place where 2020 election lies finally crash upon the rocks of reality. The Editorial Board wrote about the wide range of the indictment in August. The Department of Health and Human Services announced more than $103 million in funding to address the maternal health crisis. The money will boost access to mental health services, help states train more maternal health providers and bolster nurse midwifery programs. These initiatives are an encouraging step toward tackling major gaps in maternal health and well-being. In August, the Editorial Board wrote about how the United States can address its maternal mortality crisis. Wisconsin state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) announced Tuesday that Republicans would allow the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau to draw legislative maps, a dramatic reversal after years of opposing such an approach to redistricting. A new liberal majority on the state Supreme Court is expected to throw out the current maps, which make Wisconsin the most gerrymandered state in America. Mr. Vos has been threatening to impeach Justice Janet Protasiewicz, whose election this spring flipped control of the court, in a bid to keep those maps. This led to understandable outcry. Now it seems Mr. Vos is backing off his impeachment threat and his efforts to keep the state gerrymandered. Read our editorial on the Protasiewicz election here. Prisoners are eating again in Bahrain after the government agreed to let them spend more hours outside and expanded their access to visitors, a welcome development ahead of the crown prince’s visit to Washington this week. Activists say the monthlong hunger strike will resume on Sept. 30 if these promises aren’t kept. Read our editorial calling for the compassionate release of Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, a political prisoner since 2011 who participated in the strike. A retired teacher in Saudi Arabia, Muhammad al-Ghamdi, has been sentenced to death by the country’s Specialized Criminal Court solely based on his tweets, retweets and YouTube activity, according to Human Rights Watch. The court’s verdict, July 10, was based on two accounts on X, formerly Twitter, which had only a handful of followers. The posts criticized the royal family. The sentence is the latest example of dictatorships imposing harsh sentences on people who use social media for free expression, highlighted in our February editorial. 1/6 End of carousel Mr. Cardin’s actions also come just as Egypt has been implicated in a brazen alleged U.S. political corruption scheme. Mr. Cardin took over the Senate committee chair from Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), who stepped down following Mr. Menendez’s indictment on bribery charges. The charging documents suggest that Egypt sought Mr. Menendez’s help in exchange for payoffs such as “hundreds of thousands of dollars in checks, cash, and gold.” In return, according to the indictment, Mr. Menendez agreed to use his clout to push for Egyptian military aid from the United States. The senator allegedly passed to Egypt “highly sensitive” information about the makeup of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo; gave Egypt information about U.S. arms sales decisions; and “secretly edited and ghostwrote” a “requested letter on behalf of Egypt seeking to convince other U.S. Senators to release a hold on $300 million in aid to Egypt.” These allegations describe an attempt by Egypt to corrupt the U.S. legislative process. It is insulting for American taxpayers to discover that Egypt, rewarded since 1978 with more than $50 billion in military and $30 billion in economic assistance, has allegedly been attempting to subvert a key aspect of U.S. democracy with tawdry bribes. These events demand that Egypt hold to account those officials potentially involved in the alleged dirty deals and provide a thorough public accounting to the United States. But that alone would not be enough to justify freeing the money Mr. Cardin froze. Egypt’s leaders have for too long violated their people’s human rights, terrorized their opposition and assaulted the independent media. Some friends. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/03/congress-egypt-aid-blocked-ben-cardin-bob-menendez/