The Delegation Of Egypt On The Electoral Violence

Almost a year ago, Egypt broke into civil unrest when protesters flooded Tahrir Square, demanding the end of Hosnia Mubarak’s regime. Although Mubarak stepped down within two weeks, Egypt is worse off today than it was last January. The Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF), which played a vital role in the January revolution, has now become a violent and oppressive force. On the twenty-ninth of December 2011, the SCAF raided seventeen Egyptian, German, and US run NGOs in search of proof of illegal foreign funding.1 In a statement (A/HRC/18/NGO/77) submitted by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), and the Center for Egyptian Women’s

One of my main reasons why I am against the coup is that president Morsi was placed under arrest for killing his own people which is something I find hard to believe. Why would Morsi kill his own people after the Mubarak dictatorship? After all Morsi was elected by the people of Egypt and he is the people’s

I think Egypt did the right thing by revolting against President Morsi. He was only doing things to benefit himself. It sounded like he was trying to become the one and only leader of Egypt when he issued a Presidential ruling that gave him all temporary powers beyond the reach of any court or system. That’s not fair. If I was in Egypt’s situation I would definitely try to rebel against him too just like the state institutions such as the police did. I would do everything in my power to get him out of the presidential role. That is what I think about the Egypt

Egypt has an unstable and ineffective government in contrast to the democratic values of the United States. There have been riots in Egypt that have resulted in new governmental

It has been six years since Egypt drove itself into oppositions of institutions in 2011. Still to this day, there is no label of the revolution to be a “success” or “failure”. It is easy to stop the moment of a unethical government was taken down, the reconstruction of Egypt and its laws is an ongoing struggle. In American history, there was no specific day when we came out of mass chaos into a united country of freedom and democracy. For Egypt's sake, all we can do is give them time to get the government back on their feet and support them in what they are still going

In order to understand the answer to this, it is again, imperative that we understand some historical facts related to the revolution of 1979. Abdelnasser states that, during the revolution of 1979, "The different Islamic groups in Egypt, namely, the Muslim brotherhood, Islamic associations and organizations, and the Salafi movement, held conflicting opinions on Iran 's preference for Shiite Muslims, and its call for jihad. The groups, however, expressed unified support on Iran 's call for unity among Islamic countries, opposition of the US and former USSR, and the exclusion of Jews from Palestine" (25). What we see here is a support system that, although focused on primarily

The recent conflict in Syria encompasses a series of events that have led to a political and humanitarian crisis. Since the civilization origins, Syria has suffered invasions, changes and violence. In the 1900’s and after 400 years of Ottoman’s Empire domain, the Arab army, supported by French, entered in Damascus. Emir Feisal was crowned as king of Syria, but French troops forced him to resign few months later. A new France state has been arisen, and it was divided in three separate regions and dominated by two religious groups: the Alawis and the Druze. The French domain did not last long and faced nationalist’s protests. Finally, Syria gains independence although France had the economic and military control until 1946 when the last French troops left Syria. Since then, military and civilian government interleaved power. The Arab Socialist Baath party was created but a coup d’etat dissolves all the political parties

Under that ‘state of emergency’, the government has the right to imprison individuals for any period of time, and for virtually no reason, thus keeping them in prisons without trials for any period. The political police may use intimidation, arbitrary arrest, torture and execution. It infiltrates other coercive agencies of the state, such as the regular police and the armed forces, to ensure their compliance. ” this state of emergency causing strong dissatisfaction of Egyptian, the citizens live under monitoring and political terror, human rights and political rights could not be gained.

The Syrian Civil war is now entering its third dreadful year as the death toll continues to rise and is now over 200,000. The Civil War was influenced by the Arab Spring which was a wave of revolutionary ideals and movements that swept through the Middle East. Therefore, when the Syrian Government arrested and tortured a group of teenagers who painted revolutionary slogans on a school wall, the people erupted. The Syrian people were fed up with the prolonged suppression by the Syrian government. A government who abused their Emergency State Law, which was enacted in 1963, giving the Syrian government the authority to suspend civil rights. The violent government retaliation against the protestors resulted in both sides taking up arms and engaging in a continuing bloody civil war leaving the country in utter turmoil.

People in Sudan have frequently voiced their concerns about the government’s policy towards freedom of expression and speech. Since 2010, the Sudanese Government has given a brutal response to the wave of protests with unparalleled bloodshed and hostility toward the citizens even though the protests had been peaceful. In Khartoum and Wad Madani alone, two hundred people were killed by the law enforcement personnel. In addition, detention has been given to more or less 600 people. Plans for economic austerity also catalyzed such protests in 2012 resulting in the implementation of “a large-scale crackdown and detentions of citizens and

The Arab Spring sparked at the end of 2010 to much of 2011 and overflowing to the beginning of 2012. It all ignited quite literally in an incident in Tunisia when a policewoman harrases, confiscates his cart and spits on Mohamed Bouazizi. Fed up with the way his country is being run and hopeless he sets himself on fire, “his actions then caused commotions and protest throughout his country” (Telegraph). Due to this anti-government uprisings Maummar al-Gaddafi and the rulers at the country at the time fled as revolts took place. After Tunisia numerous other states took part in the Arab Spring, revolting and protesting to overthrow their respective Authoritarian and Dictatorship regimes. The list of countries include: Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Bahrain, Algeria, Jordan, and Oman. In Libya “on 11 February, 2011 the people organized an anti-government demonstration spread to Tripoli and

In addition to opposing the political regime, the rise of fundamentalism in Egypt is due to the fact that ''[C]ertainly Egypt had many problems in the 1980s which might have conceivably strengthened radical Islamic groups'' (Rubin vii). The 1990s witnessed increase of terrorism in Egypt. This is

The International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights was thought of during the mid 1900’s, after World War II. The lack of human rights during this international war brought about a great deal of consideration for human rights and how it is applied amongst the States. It was proposed and introduced during the time the United Nations Charter was ratified. The United Nations Charter urges the commitment to promote international human rights. With that ratified and in place, additional other covenants based on human rights were added to be signed and ratified.

By early 2011, the country balanced on the razor’s edge as it was stressed by severe socioeconomic issues as well as by the turmoil of the changing political climate raging through its neighboring countries. For it was at this time, that a wave of violent and nonviolent protests swept the entire region of the middle east in what has come to be known as the Arab Spring . This season of protests led to toppling of regimes, political figures, and even the caused the destabilization of entire governments. Some of these included: Protests that forced Hosni Mubarak (president of Egypt at the time) to resign his office , Mass Demonstrations that forced the government of Yemen to crack down on the protesters leaving anywhere from 200 to 2,000 people dead, and the exile of Ben Ali (the autocratic ruler of Tunisia) as deadly demonstrations ravaged the country .

The emergency powers fail to meet the standards of an ‘islamic’ and ‘democratic’ state in the following ways. Firstly, arbitrary detention is used actively and threatened against pressure groups to prevent them expressing their views thereby blocking the second standard, the use of individual reason in the public sphere. For instance, after the adoption of a critical resolution on Egypt by the European Parliament in early 2008, Egyptian officials made aggressive statements against Egyptian rights activists who had provided substantial input (S.Abed Kotob, 1995: 333). Secondly, articles in the Penal Code have been used to prosecute both pressure groups and rights activists on the grounds of national security. Saad Eddin Ibrahim himself was prosecuted in 2008 for “threatening national security and spreading misleading information about Egypt abroad” (Zubaida: 11). Indeed, President Mubarak has promised to end the permanent state of emergency, yet none of these promises have materialized.