| After demonstrations, strikes, looting, fires and a few occupied buildings, State Security has been dismantled. Well, sort of. |
| After demonstrations, strikes, looting, fires and a few occupied buildings, State Security has been dismantled. Well, sort of.The body as we knew it has been dissolved only to be restructured, renamed and turned into what is now known as the National Security Office (NSO). All sectors, departments and offices of the former State Security have all been handed over to this new office. The new entity will take over the role of ensuring state security and cooperating with bodies dedicated to preserving and protecting internal security and combating terrorism. Ring a bell? The distinction is in an added sentence to the NSO’s new job description: Its work has to abide by the Constitution, the law, respect for personal freedoms and human rights. The NSO will also respect the freedom of the media and shall not interfere in the businesses of universities and religious preaching in mosques and churches. Interior Minister Mansour El Essawy tapped Hamed Abd Allah, the former minister of interior’s assistant to Upper Egypt, to head the NSO. In the week before El Essawy announced the end of the SSO, State Security offices around the country were besieged by protestors, with some buildings raided by civilian protesters who claimed that files were being destroyed. Protesters occupied and rummaged through SS branches in Alexandria and Nasr City for hours until the military secured the buildings. |
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