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Analysis: Egypt's Military Crackdown on Dissent 06 01 14 Part 1

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Channel: Islam Channel · 2014 · News & Politics

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A couple of weeks ago, the military-backed interim Egyptian government declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group after blaming it for a deadly attack on a police headquarters.

After that, thousands of the Brotherhood supporters have been arrested in a crackdown, amidst vows that protests will continue regardless.

Deputy Egyptian Prime Minister Hossam Eissa said the government will give the authorities more power to crack down on the Brotherhood and threatened that those who belonged to the group, financed it or promoted its activities would face punishment.

At the same time, three Al Jazeera journalists were arrested and accused of broadcasting news that were "damaging to national security".
According to The Committee to Protect Journalists, in 2013, things deteriorated dramatically for journalists in Egypt, where six journalists were killed for their work.

So, is the situation in Egypt getting dangerously close to being out of control? What will be the repercussions of designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organisation? And which are the reasons for this continued clampdown on media and arrests of international journalists?

To discuss this topic we invited Mohammad Soudan, the Foreign Relations Secretary at the Freedom & Justice Party; Sabah Al-Muktar, chair of the Arab Lawyers Association, Professor John Dugard, Former UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur, and Tayib Ali, Criminal & Human Rights Lawyer.

On Skype, from Qatar, is Nadia El Magd, an Al Jazeera Egyptian Journalist and on the phone from Berlin is Lubna Azzam, from the German Inst. for International and Security Affairs. Also on the phone, but from Egypt is Rania Al Malky, Editor at the Egypt Monocle.

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