Buzzfeed News quotes Rafik Hariri Center Nonresident Senior Fellow H.A. Hellyer on the arrest of human rights activist and journalist Hossam Bahgat in Cairo:
“I think the timing of Hossam’s summons was more about the London visit,” said H.A. Hellyer, a Cairo-based scholar and a fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Middle East center. “After all, the article he wrote about the army was weeks ago. Had he been summoned before Sisi’s visit to London, he would have been on the agenda in London from the British side, almost certainly.”