| Egypt Mission to UN Roughed
Up Protesters Triggering FSIA
Lawsuit in SDNY
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Feb 5 – Two Egyptian
brothers who while protesting
at their country's Mission to
the UN were roughed up on
August 20, 2025 filed a
Foreign Sovereign Immunities
Act lawsuit against the Arab
Republic of Egypt on February
5 in the US District Court for
the Southern District of New
York, where Inner City Press
found it.
The
complaint says while they
protested outside, they were
dragged into the Mission and
"likely believing they were
beyond the reach of the law,
the agents whipped Yasin
repeatedly with the chain...
Agents forcibly held A.E.
during this time.
Inner City
Press, which covered the UN as
a resident correspondent and
then was similarly roughed up
by UN Security and ousted,
banned every since, well knows
the Egyptian Mission at 304
East 44th Street. It is in a
former art school, and hosts
diplomatic parties. The UN
says little about the abuses
of the Egyptian government.
Perhaps all this will begin to
change.
The case is El
Sammak, et al., v. Arab
Republic of Egypt,
1:26-cv-1023
(Unassigned)
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