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Ayman Nour (Egypt's leading liberal opposition figure; founder, El-Ghad Party) — exclusive DAWN "Democracy in Exile" interview, 7 Aug 2023: frames the 2013 takeover as "a coup against the revolution," casts his exile as the price of free expression, and condemns Sisi-era arbitrary detention and frequent deaths of detainees in custody.
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Egypt 2023-08-07 Tier 2 — primary or translation
Politician: Ayman Nour
Original source: https://dawnmena.org/egypts-problem-now-is-cruelty-ayman-nour-on-life-in-exile-and-the-magnitude-of-sisis-repression/
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It was a coup against the revolution, and I left," Nour says in an exclusive interview with Democracy in Exile. "I left Egypt to be able to express my opinion and say what I wanted about what is happening in my country.
Some people are arrested, but we do not know why they are arrested and why they are released or why they are not released," he says. "It is almost every day we hear about the death of a new detainee. English translation
[Source is in English (DAWN — Democracy for the Arab World Now); editorial context, not a translation.] Declared positions of Ayman Nour — long Egypt's most prominent liberal opposition politician and founder of the El-Ghad (Tomorrow) Party, who ran against Hosni Mubarak in the 2005 presidential election (and was imprisoned afterward), and has lived in exile (Beirut, then Istanbul) since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's 2013 coup. From his exclusive interview with DAWN's "Democracy in Exile" (7 August 2023). He frames the July 2013 military takeover as "a coup against the revolution," casts his exile as the price of free expression, and condemns the Sisi era's arbitrary, opaque detentions and the frequent deaths of detainees in custody — a liberal, pro-democracy, civil-liberties-centered critique distinct from the Islamist and resistance voices elsewhere in the dataset. [Axes: democracy, civil-liberties, regime-stance.]
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(Nour, 2023) Nour, A.. (2023). Ayman Nour (Egypt's leading liberal opposition figure; founder, El-Ghad Party) — exclusive DAWN "Democracy in Exile" interview, 7 Aug 2023: frames the 2013 takeover as "a coup against the revolution," casts his exile as the price of free expression, and condemns Sisi-era arbitrary detention and frequent deaths of detainees in custody.. dawnmena.org. Retrieved July 28, 2026, from https://dawnmena.org/egypts-problem-now-is-cruelty-ayman-nour-on-life-in-exile-and-the-magnitude-of-sisis-repression/
Nour, Ayman. 2023. "Ayman Nour (Egypt's leading liberal opposition figure; founder, El-Ghad Party) — exclusive DAWN "Democracy in Exile" interview, 7 Aug 2023: frames the 2013 takeover as "a coup against the revolution," casts his exile as the price of free expression, and condemns Sisi-era arbitrary detention and frequent deaths of detainees in custody.." dawnmena.org. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://dawnmena.org/egypts-problem-now-is-cruelty-ayman-nour-on-life-in-exile-and-the-magnitude-of-sisis-repression/.
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