Supreme Constitutional Court Rules Portions of Protest Law Unconstitutional

The SCC ruled that if protest demonstration organizers comply with the requirement of prior notice to the police, police or other security services cannot constitutionally ban public demonstrations without first obtaining judicial approval. In essence, the Court has inserted the judiciary as a check on government authority to ban public protest activity.

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Comparison of Egypt's Protest Law (Demonstrations Law) with Other Countries

While there are some similarities between Egypt’s recent protest law (sometimes called the demonstrations law) and laws of the United States, England, France, and Switzerland (cited by some Egyptian officials as having been studied as models), there are also fundamental differences, much like several vehicles that all look like automobiles, but the Egypt model lacks brakes.

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