New NGO act has to strike balance between security needs, growth of civil society

The Madbouly government needs to strike a balance between security and an environment that allows civil society organizations to grow, opinion writer Emad El Din Hussein writes for Al Shorouk. President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has acknowledged the law could change, and the challenge now is to ensure that amendments deliver a bill that can hold to account organizations that engage in illegal activities without the state needing to use blanket tactics that restrict civil society as a whole.