Amnesty International urged Lebanese authorities to reject extradition requests from Egypt and the UAE for Abdul Rahman Al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian-Turkish poet and son of the late Islamic scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who was detained upon his return from Syria on December 28.
The ongoing genocidal war in Gaza has undone much of the smoothness Sisi has been trying to bring into the Israel-Egypt relations after a US backed military coup ousted the democratically elected government of Mohammed Morsi, the Egyptian president who was a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.