Egypt's parliament is expected to endorse constitutional changes on expanding presidential power
A banner in Cairo, Egypt of President Abdel Fattah el Sisi before an expected referendum on constitutional amendments. April 9, 2019.
It includes changing Article 140 of the constitution to allow the Egyptian president to extend his current four-year term, which ends in 2022, by two years. Sisi won his first term as president in 2014 and was re-elected in March 2018 with more than 97 percent of the vote, after standing virtually unopposed in the wake of the decimation of much of the organised opposition to the coup that brought him to power.
The authorities have jailed thousands of Morsi's supporters as well as liberal and secular activists, including a popular blogger, actors, singers and journalists. "Congress needs to use its levers to pressure the Egyptian president to reverse course, starting with withdrawing these constitutional amendments set to consolidate authoritarian rule," said HRW's Michael Page.
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