BIBFRAME Work

Title

The road ahead : a human rights agenda for Egypt's new Parliament

Other Titles (e.g. Variant)

Human rights agenda for Egypt's new parliament

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Human Rights Watch (Organization) (contributor)

Subject

• Human rights--Egypt (LCSH)
• Egypt--Politics and government--21st century (LCSH)
• Civil rights--Egypt (LCSH)
• Egypt--Social conditions--21st century (LCSH)

Language

• eng

Classification

LCC: KRM2460 .R63 2012 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Legislative authority in Egypt today -- The need to prioritize legislative reform to ensure basic rights. Repeal the emergency law and end the state of emergency -- Amend the Code of Military Justice to end military trials of civilians -- Reform the Police Law -- Protect and decriminalize free expression -- Spreading "false" information -- Calls for political change -- Harming public morals -- Defamation and "insulting" officials -- Amend provisions that criminalize freedom of religion -- Amend the Law on Associations to let independent NGOs operate lawfully, and decriminalize exercise of freedom of association -- Law No. 84 on Associations of 2002 -- Amend the Assembly Law and the new Strike and Demonstration Ban Law -- The 1914 and 1923 Laws on Public Assembly -- New law criminalizing strikes and demonstrations -- Amend the definition of torture in line with international law and strengthen criminal penalties for police abuse -- Conclusion.

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The road ahead : a human rights agenda for Egypt's new Parliament

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• Date: 2026-09-30T17:49:46.311091+00:00
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• Status: c
• Derived from: 18114362

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• Date: 2026-09-30
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• Description language: eng
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