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During a trip to Washington last month, Abbas Kamel, the head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate and often referred to as Egypt’s “spy chief”, made an astonishing claim to US congress. Kamel said that, in 2015, when the US was negotiating the release of the Egyptian-American human rights activistMohamed Soltan, US diplomats promised that Soltan’s release was conditional on him spending the rest of his life in a US prison. Politico, who broke the story, even obtained a document confirming Kamel’s account of this deal. We know that the US did not keep its side of the bargain, as So…