Ahead of a farcical election, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi goes after the press
His tone has turned dark, with threats and talk of conspiracies
ABDEL-FATTAH AL-SISI, Egypt’s president, could not ask for a better mouthpiece than Khairy Ramadan, a talk-show host. When activists started a Twitter campaign to mock the president, Mr Ramadan proposed banning the social network. And like Mr Sisi he calls the revolution of 2011, when the previous strongman, Hosni Mubarak, was overthrown, a foreign plot.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “The paranoid president”
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