Adly Mansour and now Abdel Fatah al-Sisi are ruling by decrees, banning protest and severely curbing freedom of speech President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi reviews a guard of honour after being sworn in as president of Egypt in June.Photograph: Reuters
A Cairo university student holds a flare during a protest against the acquittal of former president Hosni Mubarak over hundreds of deaths during the 2011 uprising. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Egypt is enacting authoritarian laws at a rate unmatched by any regime for 60 years, legal specialists from four institutions have told the Guardian.
Since the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, Morsi’s successors in the presidency, Adly Mansour and Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, have used the absence of an elected parliament to almost unilaterally issue a series of draconian decrees that severely restrict freedom of expression, association and assembly.
