In Egypt, a Contender Emerges to Challenge President Sisi<br />At a packed news conference in Cairo, Mr. Ali, who rose to prominence last year in rare protests over the government’s<br />decision to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, said Egypt was in the grip of a deep crisis.<br />Egyptian wrote that As you shake hands with Sisi,<br />On Sunday, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry summoned the ambassadors — from Britain, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany<br />and Italy — and said their intervention was "unacceptable." During his news conference, Mr. Ali threatened to boycott the vote if the conditions for a fair election were not in place next year.<br />But his profile rose last year after he led a powerful protest movement challenging Mr. Sisi<br />over his decision to hand over the Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia.<br />6, 2017<br />CAIRO — A prominent Egyptian human rights lawyer stepped forward on Monday as a candidate in next year’s presidential election,<br />emerging as the first open challenger to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s authoritarian rule after years of growing repression.<br />Mr. Ali said he was forced to hold the news conference at the offices of a rival political party<br />because the security agencies had shut him out of larger sites, he said.
