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It\u2019s another blessedly slow morning for Egypt in the foreign press, with the only story earning significant attention being the passing of the newly amended NGOs Act.<\/b> Amnesty International says<\/a> the law \u201cincludes only a handful of token cosmetic changes to address human rights concerns,\u201d in an analysis of proposed amendments to the law, which was originally issued in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s another blessedly slow morning for Egypt in the foreign press, with the only story earning significant attention being the passing of the newly amended NGOs Act. Amnesty International says the law \u201cincludes only a handful of token cosmetic changes to address human rights concerns,\u201d in an analysis of proposed amendments to the law, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7233],"tags":[2386,72,180,532],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-597157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt-in-the-news","tag-egypt-in-the-news","tag-enterpriseam","tag-legislation","tag-ngos-act","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"380d1dce-9894-41f6-b578-87979c725492","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[597133],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nEgypt\u2019s newly approved NGOs Act is the only story in the foreign press - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2019\/07\/17\/egypts-newly-approved-ngos-act-is-the-only-story-in-the-foreign-press\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Egypt\u2019s newly approved NGOs Act is the only story in the foreign press\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It\u2019s another blessedly slow morning for Egypt in the foreign press, with the only story earning significant attention being the passing of the newly amended NGOs Act. 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