A top adviser to President-elect Joe Biden, who has pledged a renewed US emphasis on human rights, voiced concern on Friday about a prominent Egyptian rights group that said security agents had arrested its executive director this week.
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights said on Thursday that its executive director, Gasser Abdel Razek, was arrested at his home and taken to an unknown location days after two other senior EIPR members were detained on charges including joining a terrorist group.
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The arrests came after senior foreign diplomats visited EIPR for a briefing on the human rights situation in Egypt on Nov. 3, the day of the election in which Biden defeated US President Donald Trump.
Antony Blinken, who is widely expected to get a top job such as national security adviser or secretary of state under Biden, issued a tweet expressing concern about the treatment of EIPR's senior officials.
