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A group of civil society and human rights organisations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have jointly signed a statement calling on the European Union to withdraw its bid to co-chair the Global Counterterrorism Task Force (GCTF) with Egypt. In a statement released on Thursday, the fifteen civil society groups said that the Egyptian government had engaged in an “escalating, systematic crackdown on the rule of law and human rights” and had specifically targeted human rights defenders, arresting them on “baseless terrorism charges”. They cited a previous warning by the Uni…