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Egypt: President Sisi in a Crusader Fight with a Generation

2016 Bahey Eldin Hassan Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Democracy and Politics Egypt Human Rights Karim Lahidji Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Women Affairs

January 25, 2016 03:33 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Karim Lahidji, Bahey Eldin Hassan Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=17984&lang=en The international community’s support given to Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime is primarily based on the notion that his regime maintains stability in the country. President Sisi keeps assuring that he is leading a successful...

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Torture to Death in Egypt’s Police Stations

2015 Amr Ismaeil Human Rights Nancy Okail Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

December 10, 2015 05:54 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Nancy Okail, Amr Ismaeil Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/torture-to-death-in-egypts-police-stations/ Talaat Shabib and Afify Hassan Afify are two Egyptian men who come from very different backgrounds and locations. Shabib was a papyrus salesman from Luxor in Upper Egypt, and Afify was a middle-class pharmacist from...

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Egypt: Into the Unknown

2015 Council On Foreign Relations Egypt Human Rights Paper Steven A. Cook

November 09, 2015 03:40 am

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Source: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Steven A. Cook Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/egypt-unknown The Egyptian state is weak. The country’s leaders are in a state of either panic or perpetual confusion. No one is in control. As in the darkest, most contested days of former President Mohammed Morsi’s tenure, Egypt’s failure once again seems plausible. Despite

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Forced Disappearances Spike in Egypt

2015 Egypt Human Rights May El-Sadany Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

November 09, 2015 03:40 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): May El-Sadany Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/forced-disappearances-spike-in-egypt-2/ On January 13, 2014, Ashraf Shahata, originally trained as a lawyer, went to the private school that he had helped establish in Kerdasa, Giza. He parked his car, went inside to meet one of his partners, and was last seen walking out...

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“Look for Another Homeland” Forced Evictions in Egypt’s Rafah

2015 Human Rights Human Rights Watch Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sinai Unknown

September 22, 2015 05:53 am

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Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/09/22/look-another-homeland/forced-evictions-egypts-rafah SUMMARY “I myself used to make food and tea for the soldiers and they came and sat in the shade of our olive tree when the sun beat down on them … My mother told me: ‘The tree is your responsibility. I fed you from it

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Repressing Egypt’s Civil Society: State Violence, Restriction of the Public Sphere, and Extrajudicial Persecution

2015 Civil Society German Institute For Security And International Affairs Human Rights Jannis Grimm Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

August 30, 2015 05:52 am

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Source: German Institute For Security and Counter-Terrorism And International Affairs Author(s): Jannis Grimm Original Link: https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/repressing-egypts-civil-society/ Summary: Since the military coup of July 2013, one of the characteristics of the Egyptian regime has been the lack of clarity on the boundaries of political activism and on what activities it...

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Repression in Egypt from Mubarak to Sisi

2015 Carnegie Democracy and Politics Egypt Human Rights Maged Mandour Paper

August 11, 2015 03:40 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Maged Mandour Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/60985 Since July 2013, Egyptian authorities have undertaken a campaign of repression against dissidents. Over the past two years, the scope and severity of this campaign has surpassed any that Egypt saw under Hosni Mubarak. Most notably, security forces attacked mostly peaceful Muslim...

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THE NEW COUNTERTERRORISM LAW: ANOTHER BLOW TO THE CONSTITUTION, ENCOURAGES EXTRA JUDICIAL KILLING

2015 Democracy and Politics Egypt Egyptian Initiative For Personal Rights Human Rights Judicial Affairs Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Unknown

August 01, 2015 03:39 am

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Source: Egyptian Initiative For Personal Rights Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://eipr.org/sites/default/files/reports/pdf/the_new_counterterrorism_law.pdf Introduction On 7 July, a group of political parties, rights organizations, and public figures issued a statement urging a delay in the issuance of the proposed counterterrorism law pending a broad, genuine social dialogue on the...

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Germany Welcomes Egypt’s Sisi

2015 Carnegie Democracy and Politics Foreign Relations Human Rights Judy Dempsey Paper

June 01, 2015 05:53 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Judy Dempsey Original Link: http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/60260 For many months, Egypt’s top diplomats have been trying to persuade Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, to invite Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to Berlin. And for many months, Merkel refused. She insisted that Egypt should first hold parliamentary elections. Elections...

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Egypt’s Short and Long-Term Challenges

2015 Civil Society Democracy and Politics Economy Egypt Foreign Relations Human Rights Islamic Movements and Institutions Middle East Institute Paper Paul Salem Security and Counter-Terrorism

May 27, 2015 03:33 am

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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Paul Salem Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/egypts-short-and-long-term-challenges In the year since being elected to the presidency, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has consolidated a ruling coalition, restored economic growth, and brought back considerable stability to the country after four years of turmoil. But this has come with a harsh crackdown...

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From Restriction to closure of public space in Egypt Egyptian Government Clamps Down on Rights Groups, Seeking their Eradication

2015 Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Civil Society Democracy and Politics Human Rights Paper Unknown

May 04, 2015 05:52 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=14940&lang=en The undersigned organizations utterly reject and condemn the increasingly aggressive actions taken by the Egyptian government and the investigating bodies against civil society, especially rights groups. We believe the goal of these measures is to slowly strangle the...

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Obama Embraces the Nixon Doctrine in Egypt

2015 Carnegie Egypt Human Rights Michele Dunne Paper Robert Kagan Security and Counter-Terrorism Youth

April 03, 2015 03:40 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Michele Dunne, Robert Kagan Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/04/03/obama-embraces-nixon-doctrine-in-egypt-pub-59649 Is Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi really an ally in our ongoing struggle against Islamic jihadism and terrorism in the Middle East? That seems to be the prevailing view these days. The Wall Street Journal’s Bret...

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