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CAIRO — Year- Long-term travel bans and asset freezes against some of Egypt's most prominent activists have been used to pierce civil society and the personal lives of targeted people, according to two reports by human rights groups. Is causing permanent damage to.
Researchers say it is impossible to estimate the number of people affected by the measure. Measures are often unrestricted and imposed without official notice.
Liberal opposition to Egyptian Muslims under President Abdel Fatta al-Sisi, who led the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohammed Mursi in 2013 and was elected President in the year. There was a thorough crackdown on the factions. later.
The Egyptian State Information Service did not respond to the request for comment.
Sisi and his supporters need security measures taken over the last nine years to stabilize Egypt, and they work to provide basic rights such as work and housing. Say you are.
The case of 15 people affected by the travel ban, including women's rights activists, researchers and lawyers, was announced Wednesday with US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) and London. It was highlighted in a report by Fair Square, a rights group based in.
According to another report released Tuesday by the US-based Freedom Initiative and the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, travel bans are often politically motivated and applied in arbitrary ways. Did not provide a means of challenge.
"Egyptian authorities are using travel bans as yet another tool in the arsenal of oppression," said Allison McManus, research director of the Freedom Initiative. increase.
Dozens of people arrested in the crackdown have recently been pardoned or released from pretrial detention, but rights groups say thousands remain imprisoned.
Some of the travel bans on activists involved in the 2015 incident investigating foreign funding of non-governmental organizations have been withdrawn, while others continue to be enforced. According to HRW, 11 people in the case are still freezing their assets.
The HRW report cited several activists related to the Egyptian Personal Rights Initiative (EIPR). It is one of the country's most prominent rights groups, such as founder and director Hossam Bahgat and Patrick Zaki, who are still banned from traveling. Arrested researchers were released after writing about discrimination against Egyptian Coptic Christians.
He also quoted the case of Waled Salem, an Egyptian graduate judicial researcher who had been four years away from his 13-year-old daughter, and Nasser Amin, a lawyer. April International Criminal Court representing victims of war in Darfur due to travel ban in NGO case. (Edited by William Maclean)
