"That would send the message that any abuse by authorities of students and researchers from British universities will not be tolerated." What exactly does this mean in practice, especially this "not be tolerated" part? It is a well known fact that Egyptian authorities do not fully exercise control over all of its territories and that various criminal gangs and ISIL infiltrate their members to perform abductions, crimes and murders. Remember the case of Croat, Tomislav Salopek, who was abducted in August and beheaded later on by ISIL. Egyptian authorities have become increasingly helpless faced with abduction of Westerners, so the crux of solution lies way deeper than simple statements of demonstration that "such acts will not be tolerated".
"That would send the message that any abuse by authorities of students and researchers from British universities will not be tolerated." What exactly does this mean in practice, especially this "not be tolerated" part? It is a well known fact that Egyptian authorities do not fully exercise control over all of its territories and that various criminal gangs and ISIL infiltrate their members to perform abductions, crimes and murders. Remember the case of Croat, Tomislav Salopek, who was abducted in August and beheaded later on by ISIL. Egyptian authorities have become increasingly helpless faced with abduction of Westerners, so the crux of solution lies way deeper than simple statements of demonstration that "such acts will not be tolerated".