{"id":14870,"date":"2017-09-21T08:54:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T08:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=14870"},"modified":"2017-10-31T08:56:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T08:56:31","slug":"egypt-amends-law-to-strip-citizenship-from-those-convicted-in-crimes-harming-public-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/egypt-amends-law-to-strip-citizenship-from-those-convicted-in-crimes-harming-public-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt amends law to strip citizenship from those convicted in crimes \u2018harming public order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt\u2019s cabinet approved on Wednesday an amendment that would allow Egyptian citizenship to be taken away from a person belonging to an entity \u201cseeking to undermine public order of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new article to amend Law 26\/1975 also stipulates\u00a0that citizenship can be stripped from those individuals convicted of crimes related to state security.<\/p>\n<p>The new amendments must be approved by parliament then ratified by the president.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified a new law that gives a broad definition of \u201cterrorist entities\u201d as part of an ongoing government campaign to combat terrorism.\u00a0The law defines terrorist entities as groups or organizations that \u201ccall to undermine laws, obstruct the functioning of state institutions, seek to attack the personal liberty of citizens or harm national unity or social peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egyptindependent.com\/egypt-amends-law-strip-citizenship-convicted-crimes-harming-public-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.egyptindependent.com\/egypt-amends-law-strip-citizenship-convicted-crimes-harming-public-order\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Egypt\u2019s cabinet approved on Wednesday an amendment that would allow Egyptian citizenship to be taken away from a person belonging to an entity \u201cseeking to undermine public order of the state.\u201d The new article to amend Law 26\/1975 also stipulates\u00a0that citizenship can be stripped from those individuals convicted of crimes related to state security. The [&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-14870","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\/14870","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=14870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14871,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14870\/revisions\/14871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}