Counterterrorism strategy and human rights in Egypt after the Arab uprising: A critical appraisal

Abozaid, Ahmed M.

doi:10.1016/j.avb.2020.101385

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“…The aforementioned incidents are two of a rising number of arrests that bring into question the reasons for the incongruity between the state security's repressive actions and Al‐Sisi's feigning of an effort to protect civil rights. Abozaid (2020) observes that it is in the interest of the Egyptian regime's power to suppress civil society to fuel more violence and justify the state's increasing repressive measures. This could explain the Parliament's approval of the Press and Media Regulation Law No.…”

Section: Conflicting Messages and Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…94 of 2015 to reinstate power to the institutions that were destabilized and weakened by the uprising, such as the Armed Forces, the Ministry of Interior, the neoliberal elites, and the old regime proponents. Abozaid maintains that the regime's invoking of the discourse of counterterrorism serves as “the principal means to normalize, institutionalize and legitimize the extrajudicial practices that directly target […] the civilians and opponents of Al Sisi's regime” (2020, p. 10). To further solidify this process of normalization and legitimization, the phenomenon of arresting peaceful Coptic activists under the guise of protecting communal harmony as a national right serves as a means of broadening the purview of terrorism.…”

Section: The Phenomenon Of Coptic Activism As Terrorismmentioning

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“…While scholars (Abozaid, 2020(Abozaid, , 2022Al Raffie, 2019;Blaydes & Rubin, 2008;Lumina, 2008;Shor, 2010) and Human Rights Watch Reports (2003Reports ( , 2004; Kenneth (2017) have well demonstrated the ways autocratic regimes use counterterrorist strategies as a tool to suppress freedoms, the recent phenomenon of arresting Copts on charges of terrorism broadens the purview of the much-feared term to swiftly silence their voices and maximize the regime's power. This paper examines the regime's strategy of capitalizing on religious differences by evoking the history of Islamist attacks, implicating the Muslim and Christian religious institutions in the state's combat against extremism, and taking unprecedented steps to show closeness to the Coptic pope and introduce Coptic reforms to force him to silence Copts in Egypt and in the diaspora in return for human rights.…”

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Mobilizing religious differences and terrorism, negotiating civil rights in Egypt

Abraham

2023

Digest Mid East Studies

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The Egyptian state's publication of its first National Human Rights Strategy 2021-2026 (NHRS) (2021) on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks came at the crossroads of Western pressure to improve human rights and the state's use of counterterrorism to silence voices. The recent arrests of Coptic activists, dubbing them "terrorists" on the pretext of disturbing public peace and instigating sectarianism, follows the regime's capitalization on Egypt's history of battling Islamic radicalism and sectarian strife. The regime has additionally used societal instabilities post the 2011 revolution to demonstrate Egypt's unique case of human rights. This paper analyzes the ways in which the language of the NHRS entangles terrorism to negotiate the interpretation of civil rights and social justice. In doing so, the thesis of NHRS posits civil rights and social justice to be the responsibility of the collective in general, and religious institutions in particular, as preservers of public peace and national unity. While the publication of the NHRS is inscribed in the feigning of democratization to Western donors, assigning Coptic activists as terrorists, as this paper argues, plays up religious differences, broadens the purview of counterterrorism, and expands state power.

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Mobilizing religious differences and terrorism, negotiating civil rights in Egypt

Abraham

2023

Digest Mid East Studies

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“…The cruelty by terrorists against the people of the province and violations of their human rights are still continuous. Sometime counterterrorism itself also violating human rights in the area (Abozaid, 2020). It added to the culture of disorder and anarchy in the province.…”

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Factors Affecting Human Rights in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Khan¹,

Yan²,

Naeem³

2021

Grassroots

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In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa the situation of human rights is comparatively worse. Factors affecting human rightsin thisprovinceincludefailure to guarantee good governance,growingpoverty, illiteracy, violence, terrorism, worseningsecurity, social injustice, political instability, and economic turmoil. These factors have been affecting adversely the human rights.To ensure human rights in the province, theexecutionof international human rights laws needs to be implemented.It is required to ensure good governance, peace and stability to ensure viable environment, provision of sustainable and quality education and reduce poverty. Unless the favourable environment beprovided to the people at large, human rights violations may be continued. This paper attempts to know about the factors affecting human rights in the province and present some solid recommendations and policy options.

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“…In general, domestic violence against women and girls spreads throughout Egypt and is perceived to be socially acceptable. A large number of women victims fail to report cases of violence due to the fact that Egypt's status of law demands severe challenge for victims to prove that their partner has hurt and abused them (Abozaid, 2020). Domestic violence in Egypt contains different spectrums, many of which are violence that forms long-term persecution (UK Home Office, 2019).…”

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Strategies and Challenges for Women Protection against Violence: A Case Study of Jakarta and Cairo

Adhha

Jahar

Kamarusdiana

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Hum.

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This study aims at illustrating the weakness of women protection against violence in various levels in Indonesia and Cairo. Both countries share common failure in protecting women due to the incapability poor performance of police and local governments. In addition, cultural values and religious understanding have played a part in narrowing the concern to the protection. Basically, Indonesia has already set some legal instruments to protect women against any violence through the gender-based laws and policies. In practice, however, such laws and policies have faced several complexities in regards to the nature of institution, security role and social values among society. Violence against women is generally regarded as moral and norm violations instead of criminal acts. In some respects, the weakness of law enforcement indicates the ineffectiveness of the existing laws and policies. Similarly, Egypt also suffers from the backwardness of women protection against violence. In fact, legal reform for women protection in this country was made in 2014 through special constitution. Such constitution is the first law set to promote the status and role of women in both private and public affairs. In addition, it also aims at ensuring equal rights and obligations in women protection which is free from discrimination and empowering as well as caring for women and girls victims at various stages of case handling system. Referring to the data and actual documents collected during the research, this study has found a result stating women protection has faced various aspects of social and political interests. To that end, it necessary to strengthen the role of civil society in controlling the government and making people aware of gender equality in particular and human rights in general.

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Counterterrorism strategy and human rights in Egypt after the Arab uprising: A critical appraisal

Cited by 8 publications

References 65 publications

Mobilizing religious differences and terrorism, negotiating civil rights in Egypt

Mobilizing religious differences and terrorism, negotiating civil rights in Egypt

Factors Affecting Human Rights in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Strategies and Challenges for Women Protection against Violence: A Case Study of Jakarta and Cairo

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