At least six activists, lawyers and journalists have been prevented from leaving Egypt in one week.
Rights groups say 217 people were banned from travel between June 2014 and September 2016 and some have had their personal assets frozen. 115 of them were critics of the government.
Libya sank into lawlessness and divisions after the downfall of the longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
The activists say the restrictions are part of a wider move by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to silence opponents and erase freedoms won in the 2011 uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule.
The rash of travel bans have prompted a rebuke from the United Nations who said they were part of an effort to silence critics.
Egypt’s Interior Ministry says police do not stop anyone from travel unless a court or prosecutor has ordered it and denies reports of a crackdown.
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Saturday, 19 December 2015
EGYPT: Suez Canal Announced As Economic Zone
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi decreed on Saturday that the area of the Suez Canal Axis Development project has been made an economic zone.
Former minister of state for administrative development Ahmed Darwish will head the economic zone for the next three years. Darwish was minister between 2004 and 2011.
On Saturday, Al-Sisi headed to Port Said to launch the East Port Said harbour development project. During his speech, the president addressed businessmen’s scepticism on the country’s ability to develop.
“I have some doubts and concerns about the businessmen, why are you sceptical about our intentions? I assure you this is not accurate. Work and build; why are you afraid?” Al-Sisi said.
The government has previously announced that the Suez Canal project will be considered an Economic Zone of a Special Nature (SEZONE), adding that this law allows the zone to work with a single-window system in completing all the investors’ procedures, separate from all ruling legislations of economic activity in Egypt.
The law also allows the zone to launch a major development company for the area, and own it completely or through cooperation with the private sector, or to leave it completely to the private sector to implement infrastructure projects, according to legal advisor Hani Sarie El-Din.
Former minister of state for administrative development Ahmed Darwish will head the economic zone for the next three years. Darwish was minister between 2004 and 2011.
On Saturday, Al-Sisi headed to Port Said to launch the East Port Said harbour development project. During his speech, the president addressed businessmen’s scepticism on the country’s ability to develop.
“I have some doubts and concerns about the businessmen, why are you sceptical about our intentions? I assure you this is not accurate. Work and build; why are you afraid?” Al-Sisi said.
The government has previously announced that the Suez Canal project will be considered an Economic Zone of a Special Nature (SEZONE), adding that this law allows the zone to work with a single-window system in completing all the investors’ procedures, separate from all ruling legislations of economic activity in Egypt.
The law also allows the zone to launch a major development company for the area, and own it completely or through cooperation with the private sector, or to leave it completely to the private sector to implement infrastructure projects, according to legal advisor Hani Sarie El-Din.
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