The human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman has made a mockery of attempts by some to portray Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Sisi as a “leader” in the region.

He who tries to represent Sisi as a great leader it shall be as if he tries to create the impossible, Karman wrote on social media. 

As he was still the army chief, Abdel Fattah Sisi led a coup against Egypt's first democratically elected president Morsi following the 2011 ouster of longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak. Thousands of members of the Muslim brotherhood were arrested and put in prisons. 

Since Sisi took power in June 2014, Egyptian courts have held mass trials for thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters and members. 

The army general denies international accusations of direct involvement in the trials, which have seen hundreds, including Morsi and top Brotherhood leadership, receiving death sentences or lengthy prison terms.