With the revolution an ever more distant memory,Egyptian rulers are clamping down hard on NGOs When the Egyptian government announced final month that it had dissolved 57 NGOs, all accused of having links to the banned Muslim Brotherhood, and it was just the latest step in a process which,under the guise of anti-terrorist policy, is tearing apart the carefully woven fabric of Egyptian society.
The war on civil society has approach in two forms, or with the main target being the Muslim Brotherhood. Back in 2012,after the elation of the 2011 revolution, the MB candidate Mohamed Morsi became Egypt’s first ever democratically elected president. But after the army removed him from power in July 2013, and the fresh government moved swiftly to clamp down on both the Muslim Brotherhood and its civil society activities.
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Source: theguardian.com