Heck of a Job, Freedom House...

This is what you get when you turn US foreign policy over to NGOs...

(Reuters) - An Egyptian court convicted 43 Americans, Europeans, Egyptians and other Arabs on Tuesday in a case against democracy promotion groups that plunged U.S.-Egyptian ties into their worst crisis in decades. Judge Makram Awad gave five-year sentences to 27 defendants tried in absentia including 15 U.S. citizens. Another American who stayed for trial was given a two-year sentence but left Egypt on Tuesday on the advice of his lawyers.

It was entirely predictable: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003043870700004X.