Hossam Bahgat
Hossam Bahgat
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights or EIPRis an independent Egyptian human rights organization, established in 2002. It is a Cairo-based think tank...
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This development is only the latest step in a long series of restrictive measures to be recommended by the interior ministers' council.
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They know they're under considerably more scrutiny now. They're aware of the legitimate concerns of observers, and they're trying to accommodate those concerns.
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No one wants to use 'national unity' anymore because it was used for years by the government to deny that there was a problem. They can't use 'secularism' because it's a dirty word. So they use 'citizenship,' but that means different things to different people.
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We were pleasantly surprised by its support for a new unified law for the building of places of worship.
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The positions of the brotherhood-affiliated parliamentary bloc are mixed, and this applies to social issues as well.