News Rights Groups Criticize Egypt’s New Anti-Terror Law

Rights Groups Criticize Egypt’s New Anti-Terror Law

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In a separate statement, the International Commission of Jurists condemned the law as a "repressive move that would erode the rule of law and brush aside fundamental legal and human rights guarantees." The law is "inconsistent with, and in numerous ways violates, Egypt's obligations under international law," the ICJ said. Among these violated principles are the rights to life, liberty, privacy, fair trials and freedom from arbitrary detention, the group claimed. Said Benarbia, director of the ICJ's Middle East and North Africa program, called on the government to comprehensively revise the law. [Mada Masr, 8/17/2015]

 

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In a separate statement, the International Commission of Jurists condemned the law as a "repressive move that would erode the rule of law and brush aside fundamental legal and human rights guarantees." The law is "inconsistent with, and in numerous ways violates, Egypt's obligations under international law," the ICJ said. Among these violated principles are the rights to life, liberty, privacy, fair trials and freedom from arbitrary detention, the group claimed. Said Benarbia, director of the ICJ's Middle East and North Africa program, called on the government to comprehensively revise the law. [Mada Masr, 8/17/2015]

 

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