{"id":14947,"date":"2017-10-30T16:32:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T16:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/redefining-egyptian-nationality-denying-political-rights-through-denying-citizenship\/"},"modified":"2017-11-01T21:42:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T21:42:18","slug":"redefining-egyptian-nationality-denying-political-rights-through-denying-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/redefining-egyptian-nationality-denying-political-rights-through-denying-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Redefining Egyptian Nationality: Denying Political Rights Through Denying Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"bold\"> By: Menna Omar &#8211; Hassan Mosad<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In its meeting on September 20, 2017,[1] Egypt\u2019s Cabinet approved a bill to amend some provisions of the country\u2019s nationality law.[2] The proposal\u2019s aim seems to be to increase the Cabinet\u2019s power to revoke and remove the nationality of people convicted in cases related to terrorism or harming state security. The term \u201cremoving nationality\u201d [isqat al-jinsiyya] pertains to persons who obtained nationality at birth and thereby possess \u201cinherent nationality\u201d, whereas the term \u201crevoking nationality\u201d [sahb al-jinsiyya] pertains to the \u201cacquired nationality\u201d of a person naturalized in one of the ways stipulated by law.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Cabinet\u2019s proposal adds a new \u00a0case to the instances in which nationality can be revoked as stipulated in Article 15 of the law.[3] This new case is \u201cthe issuance of a judicial ruling proving membership in any group, association, body, organization, gang, or entity, irrespective of its nature or legal or actual form, or whether it is based inside or outside the country, that aims to compromise the state\u2019s public order or to undermine the social, economic, or political system by force or by any illicit means\u201d. The proposal also increases the period wherein the Cabinet may revoke nationality from five years from the date of naturalization to ten years from this date.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Furthermore, in a clear expansion of the cases in which nationality can be removed, the proposal adds a new case to those mentioned in Article 16 of the law,[4] namely \u201cconviction in a crime that harms national security from abroad or within\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legal-agenda.com\/en\/article.php?id=4022\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By: Menna Omar &#8211; Hassan Mosad In its meeting on September 20, 2017,[1] Egypt\u2019s Cabinet approved a bill to amend some provisions of the country\u2019s nationality law.[2] The proposal\u2019s aim seems to be to increase the Cabinet\u2019s power to revoke and remove the nationality of people convicted in cases related to terrorism or harming state [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-afrique-du-nord","region-egypte","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-631","item-theme-la-perte-et-la-decheance-de-nationalite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14952,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947\/revisions\/14952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}