{"id":14807,"date":"2017-10-02T19:58:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T19:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=14807"},"modified":"2017-10-29T20:01:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T20:01:22","slug":"egypt-aims-to-amend-rules-for-revoking-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/egypt-aims-to-amend-rules-for-revoking-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt aims to amend rules for revoking citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <span class=\"byline-name\">Muhammed Magdy<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"essay\">CAIRO \u2014 The Egyptian government\u2019s approval Sept. 20 of a proposal to amend the country&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masrawy.com\/news\/news_egypt\/details\/2017\/9\/20\/1157826\/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A5%D8%B3%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%85-%D8%AA%D8%B6%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nationality law<\/a>\u00a0raised controversy among politicians, legal experts and\u00a0rights activists amid fears that the amendments might be targeting\u00a0opponents of current regime policies.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Sept. 20 statement by the Council of Ministers, the government\u2019s proposed amendments would broaden\u00a0the powers of the prime minister when it comes to taking nationality away from citizens. The proposed changes would add a provision that could revoke the\u00a0nationality of Egyptians\u00a0convicted of a crime harming state security, whether in Egypt or abroad, even if the person&#8217;s parents were both Egyptian. The proposal also has a provision that would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabinet.gov.eg\/Arabic\/MediaCenter\/CabinetMeetings\/Pages\/%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9-%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%85-(89)-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A6%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B3-%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%81-%D8%A5%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%8A.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revoke Egyptian nationality<\/a> acquired by a foreigner who joins any group or organization, inside or outside the country, aimed at harming the public order of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2017\/10\/egypt-government-proposal-amend-nationality-law-brotherhood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2017\/10\/egypt-government-proposal-amend-nationality-law-brotherhood.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Muhammed Magdy CAIRO \u2014 The Egyptian government\u2019s approval Sept. 20 of a proposal to amend the country&#8217;s nationality law\u00a0raised controversy among politicians, legal experts and\u00a0rights activists amid fears that the amendments might be targeting\u00a0opponents of current regime policies. According to a Sept. 20 statement by the Council of Ministers, the government\u2019s proposed amendments would [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-egypt","type-news-articles","item-year-631","item-theme-loss-and-deprivation-of-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14808,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14807\/revisions\/14808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}