Repression of civil liberties
Do not use national security waiver to clear military aid to Egypt, rights groups urge US
Fourteen organizations wrote to the Joe Biden administration urging it not to use a national security waiver to clear military aid to Egypt. The waiver has been used in the past to avoid an evaluation of Egypt’s human rights record as part of the aid is conditional
- Trump to impose 25% tariff increase on all steel and aluminum imports
- Labor fights back against attacks on federal workers
- Pro-Palestinian activist Ismail Al-Ghazawi freed in Morocco
- Actions planned across the US in opposition to immigration raids
- Hezbollah to hold Nasrallah and Safieddine’s funeral on February 23
