In a lecture to National Security officers: Bahey eldin Hassan warns of the dangers of reviving the policies and practices of Mubarak and al-Adli and the application of the emergency law Bahey eldin Hassan, the director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), said that that the “fullapplication” of the emergency law and an expansion of its scope would affect many spheres that remained untouched by the law even in the Mubarak era. In its essence, it is the application of policies pursued by theformer president and his interior minister, Habib al-Adli, which were based on brutality and oppression. According to Hassan, among those who will pay the price of these policies will ...

Joint statement : The Egyptian government is often forced to recognize past abuses in the course of putting a pretty face on future ones, as aptly illustrated by a presidential decree issued on May 11 that extended the State of Emergency ...