Human Rights Watch's 2016 analysis of Egypt's Law No. 80 of 2016, the Law on the Construction and Renovation of Churches, passed by the House of Representatives on 30 August 2016 in implementation of Article 235 of the 2014 Constitution and ratified by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Read for its account of what the law changed and what it left in place, replacing the 1856 Ottoman Hamayouni Decree's governor-permission system with a new one that rights groups and Coptic legislators judged little improved in practice.
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AuthorHuman Rights Watch
PublisherHuman Rights Watch
URLhttps://www.hrw.org/news/2016/09/15/egypt-new-church-law-discriminates-against-christians
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Tier 2: a major international human rights organization's contemporaneous legal analysis of a named statute, Law No. 80 of 2016, read for its account of what the law actually changed rather than for the government's own framing of it. Claims Backed By This Source (8 claims)
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