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The Battle Over Family Law in Egypt Shows Only the Personal Can Be Political, And Then Only So Far

2022CarnegieDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptHuman RightsJudicial AffairsNathan J. BrownPaper
July 12, 2022 13:54 pm
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Source: Carnegie Author(s): NATHAN J. BROWN Original Link: https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/07/12/battle-over-family-law-in-egypt-shows-only-personal-can-be-political-and-then-only-so-far-pub-87488 In Egypt over the past few years, the space for public discussion—much less contestation—about political issues has become as narrow as at any time over the past half century. Much discussion in...

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Egypt: Arbitrary Travel Bans Throttle Civil Society

2022Democracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsHuman RightsHuman Rights WatchJudicial AffairsPaper
July 06, 2022 13:55 pm
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Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Human Rights Watch Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/07/06/egypt-arbitrary-travel-bans-throttle-civil-society (Washington, DC) – Egypt is using arbitrary travel bans to target key members of civil society for their peaceful work, including rights lawyers, journalists, feminists, and researchers, FairSquare and Human Rights Watch said today. The...

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Egypt’s Taming of Judiciary: The Case of the SCJB

2022Abbas QabbariDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesHuman RightsJudicial AffairsPaper
June 21, 2022 15:17 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Abbas Qabbari Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypts-taming-of-judiciary-the-case-of-the-scjb/ Judicial customs have settled on formation of boards of directors for judicial bodies and agencies, with multiple powers and burdens, based on laws acquired by the judiciary from various regimes. Contrary to these established custom, the...

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Egypt: Prisoner’s right to complain bet. Mandella Rules and domestic laws

2022Democracy and PoliticsEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesHuman RightsJudicial AffairsPaperSherif Hilali
June 17, 2022 14:48 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Sherif Hilali Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-prisoners-right-to-complain-bet-mandella-rules-and-domestic-laws/ The UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, known as the Nelson Mandela Rules, affirm the prisoners’ right to be provided with information as well as their right to file complaints, as stated in rules...

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Egypt: The need for effective judicial oversight of prisons

2022Democracy and PoliticsEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesHuman RightsJudicial AffairsPaperSherif Hilali
June 13, 2022 14:34 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Sherif Hilali Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-the-need-for-effective-judicial-oversight-of-prisons/ Violation of prisoners’ rights pervades Egyptian prisons and detention centers, where there is no real oversight by the Public Prosecution and Judiciary over the prisons administration. Read more at original link

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Ebb of Justice: Egypt’s Constitutional Court as Veto Player in International Disputes

2022Democracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsJudicial AffairsNourhan FahmyPaperThe Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy
February 23, 2022 14:51 pm
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Source: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Author(s): Nourhan Fahmy Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/ebb-of-justice-egypts-constitutional-court-as-veto-player-in-international-disputes/ Amid a resurgence in international prosecutions and transnational modes of legal accountability, various states implicated in human rights violations have grown wary about potential legal...

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Renewed Arbitrary Detention: Keeping the Egyptian Opposition in Detention

2022Amr Ahmed IbrahimDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptHuman RightsJudicial AffairsPaperThe Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy
January 31, 2022 16:01 pm
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Source: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Author(s): Amr Ahmed Ibrahim Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/analysis/renewed-arbitrary-detention-keeping-the-egyptian-opposition-in-detention/ Renewed arbitrary—or “rotation” of detention—is the act of re-detaining those who have been already granted a release order after the termination of their sentences, a verdict of...

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WORLD REPORT 2022 – Egypt, Events of 2021

2022Civil SocietyDemocracy and PoliticsEconomyEgyptForeign RelationsHuman RightsHuman Rights WatchJudicial AffairsMediaMinoritiesPaperWomen Affairs
January 14, 2022 14:57 pm
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Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Human Rights Watch Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2022/country-chapters/egypt In 2021, authorities escalated the use of the abusive Emergency State Security Courts to prosecute peaceful activists and critics who joined thousands of dissidents already in Egypt’s congested prisons. Courts issued death sentences in mass trials, adding to the...

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Egypt: Legislative Structure of Funds.. the Case of ‘Tahya Misr’

2022Abbas QabbariDemocracy and PoliticsEconomyEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesJudicial AffairsPaper
January 04, 2022 15:18 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Abbas Qabbari Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-legislative-structure-of-funds-the-case-of-tahya-misr/ The Mubarak regime expanded establishment of special funds as money safes outside the official state budget, creating a corrupt environment par excellence. The official use of the idea of ​​special funds started in the wake of the...

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A legal review of Sisi’s decision to abolish emergency law

2021Ali ShaikhounDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesHuman RightsJudicial AffairsPaper
December 06, 2021 15:41 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Ali Shaikhoun Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/a-legal-review-of-sisis-decision-to-abolish-emergency-law/ The Egyptian media have cheered Sisi’s decision to abolish the Emergency Law No. 162 of 1958 and its amendments; and many of those who voluntarily listen to the propaganda of Egyptian pro-regime media have rejoiced...

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Egypt: Prosecution’s expanded powers in Constitution & law

2021Democracy and PoliticsEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesHuman RightsJudicial AffairsPaperSherif Hilali
November 24, 2021 15:30 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Sherif Hilali Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-prosecutions-expanded-powers-in-constitution-law/ The approach of the Egyptian Constitution of 2014 related to the rules of pretrial detention has been criticized for lack of clear guarantees in this regard, including the need to state that the pretrial detention order should be issued...

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Egypt: Escalating violations against pretrial detainees

2021Democracy and PoliticsEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesHuman RightsJudicial AffairsPaperSherif Hilali
November 22, 2021 15:04 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Sherif Hilali Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-escalating-violations-against-pretrial-detainees/ In addition to the prolonged pretrial detention and the stereotypical recurrent charges, the Egyptian authorities have committed several other violations against detainees, Read more at original link

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