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TIMEP Brief: Torture in Egyptian Detention Centers

2017 Egypt Human Rights Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Unknown

September 15, 2017 03:40 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/timep-brief-torture-in-egyptian-detention-centers/ The use of torture in police and military prisons and detention centers has been thoroughly documented by rights groups in Egypt, despite government claims that the use of torture is rare. Since 2011, the number of cases seems to...

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U.S. Aid to Egypt Should Hinge on Rule of Law

2017 Brad Youngblood Democracy and Politics Economy Egypt Foreign Relations Human Rights Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

September 13, 2017 03:38 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Brad Youngblood Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/u-s-aid-to-egypt-should-hinge-on-rule-of-law/ The United States Department of State announced three weeks ago that it would withhold $95.7 million in aid from Egypt and delay a further $195 million because of the country’s lack of respect for human rights. This...

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Extrajudicial killings have spiked in Egypt

2017 Egypt Egyptian Institute For Studies Human Rights Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sudarsan Raghavan

September 07, 2017 03:40 am

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Source: Egyptian Institute For Studies Author(s): Sudarsan Raghavan Original Link: http://en.eipss-eg.org/extrajudicial-killings-have-spiked-in-egypt/ Washingtonpost, Since Trump’s Mideast visit, extrajudicial killings have spiked in Egypt, By Sudarsan Raghavan, 30 August 2017. CAIRO — Two months after Sabry Mohammed Said vanished, his body turned up at the morgue. He had been shot three times...

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“We Do Unreasonable Things Here” Torture and National Security in al-Sisi’s Egypt

2017 Human Rights Human Rights Watch Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Unknown

September 05, 2017 06:27 am

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Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/09/05/we-do-unreasonable-things-here/torture-and-national-security-al-sisis-egypt Summary Since July 2013, when Egypt’s military overthrew the country’s first freely elected president, torture has returned as the calling card of the security services, and the lack of punishment for its routine practice...

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Egypt’s Ban on Church Trips Sends Dangerous Message

2017 Human Rights Ishak Ibrahim Minorities Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

September 01, 2017 05:52 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Ishak Ibrahim Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/egypts-ban-on-church-trips-sends-dangerous-message/ Coptic monasteries and moulids, the celebrations of saints that bring hundreds of thousands of pilgrims and visitors to holy sites across Egypt, are usually overflowing during the summer. But this year, they are almost...

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SPECIAL BRIEFING: Developments in U.S.-Egypt Aid Relationship

2017 Civil Society Economy Egypt Foreign Relations Human Rights Military Affairs Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Unknown

August 24, 2017 03:33 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/special-briefing-developments-in-u-s-egypt-aid-relationship/ RECENT DEVELOPMENTS UPDATE, September 7, 2017: On September 6, the office of Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), vice-chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, issued a summary of the Senate’s State, Foreign Operations, and...

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Kafka in Cairo

2017 Chatham House Civil Society Culture, Education and Development Economy Egypt Helen Fitzwilliam Human Rights Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

July 30, 2017 03:33 am

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Source: Chatham House Author(s): Helen Fitzwilliam Original Link: https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/twt/kafka-cairo When the regime of Hosni Mubarak fell during the 2011 revolution, many diaspora Egyptians returned home, bringing with them the latest ideas in science, technology and medicine to build the nascent democracy. But when that modern state failed to materialize, they ran for...

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Egyptian Debt: the Road to the Abyss

2017 Ashraf Dawaba Democracy and Politics Economy Egypt Egyptian Institute For Studies Human Rights Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

July 26, 2017 03:39 am

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Source: Egyptian Institute For Studies Author(s): Ashraf Dawaba Original Link: http://en.eipss-eg.org/egyptian-debt-the-road-to-the-abyss/ Egyptian Debt: the Road to the Abyss In its introduction, the study explains that public debt is one of the important issues that have direct impact on the economics of the countries and its people’s standard of living and the future of current and

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Executing Justice in Egypt

2017 Carnegie Egypt Human Rights Judicial Affairs Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sherif Mohy El Deen

July 20, 2017 03:39 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Sherif Mohy El Deen Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/71596 On June 7, the Court of Cassation, Egypt’s highest court, issued a ruling reaffirming the death penalty for six young men from Mansoura who have been in jail since 2014. This is part of a surge in executions over the past few years. Executions increased from 15

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The Role of the Public Prosecution in Egypt’s Repression

2017 Human Rights Judicial Affairs Mohamed El-Ansary Paper Pomed

July 01, 2017 05:54 am

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Source: Pomed – Project On Middle East Democracy Author(s): Mohamed El-Ansary Original Link: http://pomed.org/pomed-publications/the-role-of-the-public-prosecution-in-egypts-repression/ Summary: The Office of the Public Prosecution, a powerful entity within the Egyptian judiciary, has been a driving force in the vast crackdown on dissent that has unfolded since the overthrow of President...

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Egypt | New Law Will Cripple Egyptian NGOs

2017 Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Civil Society Egypt Human Rights Judicial Affairs Paper Unknown

June 02, 2017 03:33 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=20004&lang=en We the undersigned civil society organizations strongly condemn the ratification of a new law regulating non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Egypt, issued by President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi on Wednesday, May 24. The law ushers in unprecedented levels of repression...

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A Fragile Egypt in a Changing World: Six Years After the Revolution

2017 Civil Society Democracy and Politics Economy Egypt Human Rights Media Minorities Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Unknown Women Affairs Youth

May 25, 2017 03:33 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/special-reports/a-fragile-egypt-in-a-changing-world-six-years-after-the-revolution/ Amid turmoil in the Middle East and changes in world leadership, much has been made of Egypt’s stability, but already in 2017 we have seen how much of this is illusory, with terrorism, sectarianism, and...

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