Egypt: A Move to Enhance Authoritarian Rule
(World News Egypt)

Expand Egyptian policemen standing guard outside a polling station with an electoral banner depicting incumbent President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi seen with a caption reading in Arabic `for the sake of Egypt we will continue the story of a nation`, in the capital Cairo`s central neighborhood of Zamalek, March 26, 2018. © 2018 Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images (Beirut) - Proposed amendments to Egypt´s constitution, including granting the armed forces authority to intervene in government, would undermine judicial independence and expand executive powers that are already being abused, Human Rights Watch said today. The amendments, introduced in Egypt´s parliament on February 3, 2019, would make the...