Raising Awareness of Human Rights Violations Group A In Egypt

ELECTION FRAUD in Egypt

Source: tvcnews.com Hamdeen SabahiAbdel Fattah el-Sisi

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EMERGENCY LAW in Egypt

Emergency Law police an excusive amount of power limiting the power of the civilians imprison anyone for virtually no reason sit in jail for any period of time

History Arab-Israeli War president Anwar Sadat August 14, 2014

Human right violations Freedom of speech Freedom of torture Right to life

POLICE BRUTALITY in Egypt

Brutality and excessive force Kidnappings Murders Rapes Humiliation

Riots and Victims Why are there riots? Men, Women, Children

Civil Rights Is limited to the control of the police Have Things truley changed after Morsi? U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (left) speaks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on July 22, 2014.

Human Trafficking in Egypt

Since 2010, traffickers in eastern Sudan have kidnapped hundreds Eritrean refugees Selling them to Egyptian traffickers who rape and torture them in Egpyt’s Sinai Peninsula Holding them hostage till they pay ransom

Egyptian officials deny trafficking victims their rights under Egypt’s Law on Combating Human Trafficking Instead, victims are charged with immigration offenses, without any medical care. Some victims die, and survivors are kept in inhumane conditions for months.

DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN in Egypt

According to BBC, Egypt is ranked the worst country for women out of all twenty-two of the Arab countries. A UN report found that 99.3% of girls and women in Egypt have been subjected to some type of sexual abuse

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is now the current president of Egypt and he has been doing things to improve women’s rights and their living standards. The New York Times talks about how Mr. Sisi became the first Egyptian president to acknowledge sexual violence, when he paid a visit to the victim of that gang rape, who was recovering in a hospital, and apologized to her. Mr. Sisi vowed to take “very decisive measures” to combat sexual violence

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