It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.
Egypt needs to catch up with the rest of the world. We need to be free, democratic, and - society where people have the right to live in freedom and dignity.
In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.
Egypt is a sovereign nation.
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
I think the Egyptian people need to restore confidence that Americans, the U.S., means what they say when they talk about democracy, rule of law.
During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.
The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.
I hope any government formed in Egypt will understand there is no choice but to maintain the framework of international agreements, which include the peace agreement with Israel.