A Washington-based NGO is working to raise awareness of its findings on extra-territorial repression by Egyptian authorities ahead of this week’s Summit for Democracy to be hosted by US President Joe Biden. The Freedom Initiative has spent the past two years documenting cases of wrongful surveillance and other repressive practices by Egypt outside its borders. Its research, including a report released in May, found Egypt to be the country with the highest rate of transnational repression in the Middle East and North Africa region. The NGO has tracked dozens of cases in which Egyptian intellige…

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