Egypt completes construction of second lane of Suez Canal, July 2015. Demotix/Ester Meerman. All rights reserved.
In echoes of Britain’s support of Saddam Hussein in the 1980s along with the US, and Margaret Thatcher’s thanks to August Pinochet for “bringing democracy to Chile”, Britain will host Egyptian junta leader Abdel Fattah El Sisi on a state visit in November.
This follows a trip by British Defence Secretary and MP for Sevenoaks, Michael Fallon, to Egypt to attend the 6 August function for the opening of a new branch of the Suez Canal. Fallon, writing an op-ed in the local Egyptian state paper, hailed the "rejection of authoritarianism" by the régime of Abdel Fattah El Sisi, while some 46,000 of the best minds and the most active people in Egypt languish in the régime’s prisons on trumped up charges, in filthy conditions and without medical care; 176 of those are parliamentarians.
