A Grand Delusion: Democracy And Economic Reform In Egypt: Analysis
A Grand Delusion: Democracy and Economic Reform in Egypt, is written by Eberhard Kienle, General Director of French Institute for the Near East and a Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, it covers a period where Egypt was in process of liberalization of its economic and political life, covering from the 80’s to the early 21st century..
In the first part of his book the author talks about the situation regarding the political liberties at the end of the 1980’s. Therefore author returns to the history, under the rule of Gamal Abdel Nasser (1954-1970), his notorious regime for Pan-Arabism, Socialism and Pro-soviet ideologies, he was increasely authoritarian. After the death of Nasser, Anwar Saddat became …show more content…
The formation of what is known as "a national committee to build a future without emergency" was calling for pushing all human rights organizations and opposition parties and public figures to resist the government's decision to extend the state of emergency through the launch of an ongoing campaign of resistance, calling on the government of the ruling National Party to open a dialogue with civil society organizations and consider the risks of the extension of the state of …show more content…
He is stressing that the government kept loyal to the measures which gave "the executive branch the right to restrict the freedom of people to assemble and move freely, accommodation and traffic movement in specific places and specific times and allowed the arrest and detention of suspects or those who represented a threat to public security and search for persons of interest and places of their interest disregarding the articles of the Criminal Procedure Code overseeing these actions.
For his part, Hafez Abu Saada, head of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, said that according to the Constitution there is not among the reasons for imposing a state of emergency to address any type of crime, whether terrorist or drug offenses, he said and added the government's announcement that the law will be used only in case of severe crimes of terrorism or involving drugs related crimes is just elusive, because these crimes are already addressed through legal sanctions
In the first part of his book the author talks about the situation regarding the political liberties at the end of the 1980’s. Therefore author returns to the history, under the rule of Gamal Abdel Nasser (1954-1970), his notorious regime for Pan-Arabism, Socialism and Pro-soviet ideologies, he was increasely authoritarian. After the death of Nasser, Anwar Saddat became …show more content…
The formation of what is known as "a national committee to build a future without emergency" was calling for pushing all human rights organizations and opposition parties and public figures to resist the government's decision to extend the state of emergency through the launch of an ongoing campaign of resistance, calling on the government of the ruling National Party to open a dialogue with civil society organizations and consider the risks of the extension of the state of …show more content…
He is stressing that the government kept loyal to the measures which gave "the executive branch the right to restrict the freedom of people to assemble and move freely, accommodation and traffic movement in specific places and specific times and allowed the arrest and detention of suspects or those who represented a threat to public security and search for persons of interest and places of their interest disregarding the articles of the Criminal Procedure Code overseeing these actions.
For his part, Hafez Abu Saada, head of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, said that according to the Constitution there is not among the reasons for imposing a state of emergency to address any type of crime, whether terrorist or drug offenses, he said and added the government's announcement that the law will be used only in case of severe crimes of terrorism or involving drugs related crimes is just elusive, because these crimes are already addressed through legal sanctions