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Climate Activists Are at Odds Over Egypt’s Human Rights Abuses
Next week, the UN climate talks known as COP 27 will kick off in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. For many attendees flocking to the seaside resort town from abroad, the location of the talks can be somewhat incidental to the dealmaking and diplomacy that happens inside sterile conference center halls. Egyptian activists facing brutal repression under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi are calling on those visiting the talks to pop the “COP bubble”: to use the spectacle of the international event, and their relative freedom as outsiders, to pressure the government to release at least some of its estimated 60,000 political prisoners.“These prisons need to be emptied,” said Yasmin Omar, an Egyptian human r

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