January 30, 2023
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Feed
  • Pin
MEO - Facts ,Background and Analysis
  • Home
  • Latest News
  • Analysis
  • Column
  • Lite Media
    • Video
    • Infograph
  • Other
    • Refugee Crisis
    • Aleppo
    • HOMS
    • Islamic State News
  • Turkey
  • Egypt
  • Gulf
    • BAHRAIN
    • KUWAIT
    • OMAN
    • QATAR
    • SAUDI ARABIA
    • UAE
    • Iran
    • Iraq
  • Syria
  • Palestine
  • Israel
  • North Africa
    • Libya
    • Algeria
    • Morocco
    • Tunisia
Homelaw

law

Egypt Latest News

Egypt approves law amendment to allow sale and lease of Suez Canal’s assets

December 20, 2022 MEO Staff

The Egyptian Parliament has approved a draft law amending some articles of Law 30 of 1975 on the Suez Canal Authority. The amendment aims at establishing a fund belonging to the Suez Canal Authority and [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Dictators like Sisi always pretend to love the law: FP

November 15, 2021 MEO Staff

There’s something farcical, but entirely rational, about the way authoritarians such as Egypt’s Sisi invoke legal justifications for repression, says Steven Cook. “Last week, Egypt’s House of Representatives approved amendments to the country’s anti-terrorism law [ More … ]

Featured Video Play Icon
Egypt Latest News

Egypt’s Parliament Passes Law Granting Citizenship to Foreigners

July 14, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

Egyptian parliament recently approved “citizenship for $$$ “law. Under the new law, the applicants pay an unspecified amount to the central bank of Egypt and applicant name can be kept anonymous. At the same time, [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Will amending NGO law appease civil society in Egypt?

December 3, 2018 MEO Staff

After ratifying the controversial NGO law, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has recently ordered the formation of a committee to amend it, following the international criticism he is under for repressing freedoms. Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt’s Parliament Passes a law that Give off Top Military Officers Immunity from Prosecution

July 17, 2018 Ahmed Rashed

Egypt’s parliament passed a law that could make senior military officers immune from future prosecution over to violence that followed the 2013 ouster of the country’s first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi. The law gives [ More … ]

Column

The US is Where the Law is up for Negotiation

January 9, 2018 Ahmed Rashed

BY: Yasin Aktay* The case that started in the U.S. as a “Reza Zarrab case” and was later turned into a Hakan Atilla case concluded last week with the verdict of the jury. The jury [ More … ]

Lebanon

Lebanon repeals law that allows a rapist to avoid punishment by marrying victim

August 17, 2017 MEO Staff

Lebanon has become the latest Middle Eastern country to repeal a law allowing rapists to escape punishment if they marry their victims. Lebanon’s parliament has abolished a law that allowed a rapist to escape punishment [ More … ]

Qatar Latest News

Qatar’s Emir orders change to law combating ‘terrorism’

July 21, 2017 MEO Staff

Decree defining terms such as ‘terrorist acts’ follows a deal between Qatar and US to fight ‘terrorism financing’. Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has issued a decree amending some provisions of a [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: Al-Sisi extends state of emergency

June 23, 2017 MEO Staff

The renewed three-month state of emergency will start on July 10. It comes after twin church bombings in April claimed 45 lives. Egypt’s  Abdel Fattah al-Sisi extended a state of emergency declared after twin church [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt on International Labor Organization’s blacklist again

June 8, 2017 MEO Staff

Egypt is back on the blacklist of the UN-affiliated International Labor Organization (ILO) over the nation’s failure to issue a new trade union law in keeping with ILO Convention 87 concerning the right to organize. [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Amnesty: Egypt’s New NGOs Law Could be “a Death Sentence” for Rights Groups

May 31, 2017 Ahmed Rashed

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified on Monday (29 May) a new law that imposes severe restrictions on NGOs and human rights organizations operating in Egypt — a move, critics warn, that greatly expands the Egypt’s military dictator ever-widening [ More … ]

Turkey Latest News

French Parliament bans Armenian ‘Genocide’ Denial

December 27, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

The unanimously passed amendment states that the “denial or trivialization” of events such as genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes or slavery will result in state pursued legal action. According to the new law, denying [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Al-Sisi Ratifies a Controversial Law Restricting Freedom of the Press in Egypt.

December 27, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

Abdel al-Fattah al-Sisi has ratified a new law that regulates the media and press in the country after being approved by the Egyptian parliament, amid a wide opposition from the Press Syndicate and media men. [ More … ]

Turkey Latest News

NATO PA President Expresses Support for Turkey on counter-terrorism and Refugees

November 21, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA) President, U.S. Congressman Michael R. Turner expressed his support for Turkey in its battle with terrorism and its struggle to host some three million Syrian refugees. “We are holding this session [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Qatar slams US ‘state sponsors of terrorism’ bill

October 6, 2016 MEO Staff

– Following Saudi lead, Doha says controversial legislation threatens ‘immunity of sovereign states’  – Qatar on Wednesday slammed proposed legislation in the U.S. that would allow the families of victims of terrorist attacks to sue the [ More … ]

Posts navigation

1 2 »

Latest

Israel reportedly carried out drone strikes on an Iranian factory

Iran Latest News
January 29, 2023

‘To save Egypt’s economy, get the army out of it’: The Economist

Egypt Latest News
January 28, 2023

Egypt: Independent organizations submit a new human rights report to the UN

Egypt Latest News
January 27, 2023

West Bank: Israel kills nine Palestinians in a new ‘massacre’ in Jenin

Israel Latest News
January 26, 2023

Egypt: ‘Inflation is so high that eggs are a luxury’, says NYT

Egypt Latest News
January 25, 2023
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Feed
  • Pin

Random

  • Syria: Kurdish militias cut last road to ISIS' stronghold in Raqqa
  • Contact Us
  • SiteMap

Copyright © 2016 | Middle East Observer