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The text the scoring pipeline reads. Each document is tied to a party (or politician) with a published date, a source URL, and either Arabic, Hebrew, or English content. Open any one to read the verbatim source and see how it was scored.
IL 88 
LB 47 
EG 44 
PS 40 
IQ 28 
MA 20 
SY 20 
YE 19 
TN 17 
JO 15 
SA 15 
SD 15 
DZ 12 
LY 11 
AE 9 
BH 9 
QA 7 
MR 6 
OM 2 
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Article English EG 2020-01-23 Ayman Nour — “Egypt's choice is clear: Democracy – or chaos under Sisi” (Middle East Eye op-ed), 23 January 2020
On 25 January, Egyptians will celebrate the ninth anniversary of the revolution. […] Nine years on, Egypt has become one of the most repressive regimes in the world. Popular anger has reached a turning point, as evidenced by recent protests. […] with more than 60,000 political prisoners, including more than 300 on…
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Article Arabic EG 2019-04-18 Tier 2 Mostaqbal Watan's behavioral democracy/regime record: the party (chaired by Ashraf Rashad) held mass rallies and campaigned for a "yes" vote on the April 2019 constitutional amendments that extended Sisi's tenure (potentially to 2030) and entrenched military/executive power. Party rally documented by Al-Ahram (18 Apr 2019); amendments' content per HRW/ICJ ("consolidate authoritarian rule").
نظم حزب مستقبل وطن فى محافظة الشرقية مؤتمرا جماهيريا حاشدا باستاد الزقازيق الرياضي، بحضور المهندسين أشرف رشاد الشريف رئيس الحزب، والنائب أشرف رشاد عثمان، نائب رئيس الحزب، والمهندس حسام الخولى الأمين العام للحزب وناشد جموع المواطنين من شباب الشرقية بصفة خاصة والمصريين بصفة عامة النزول والمشاركة بكثافة يومي 20 و21 و22…
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Article English EG 2015-04-05 Tier 2 Mahmoud Abu Zeid "Shawkan" (Egyptian photojournalist; 2018 UNESCO Press Freedom laureate) — from his April 2015 letter smuggled out of Tora prison (Amnesty International): his account of being arrested on 14 Aug 2013 simply for photographing the Rabaa dispersal — jailed 5½ years for "taking pictures."
My life changed forever on the morning of Wednesday 14 August 2013. I was taking pictures of people protesting on the streets of Cairo when police came and locked down the streets. Thousands of people were immediately arrested – not only Morsi supporters, but also dozens of people caught up in the wrong place at the…
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Article English EG 2012-12-05 Tier 2 FJP behavioral civil-liberties record — the Dec 2012 Itihadiya Palace detentions: FJP Deputy Secretary Essam al-Erian called on air for protesters to be "arrested," and Brotherhood/FJP members detained and beat 49 anti-Morsi protesters at a makeshift center (a police report records "youth from the Freedom and Justice Party" handed them over). Documented by Human Rights Watch (12 Dec 2012).
During the clashes on the evening of December 5, FJP Deputy Secretary Essam al-Erian gave a live television interview, saying, “Everyone must go now to Ettihadiya and surround the thugs and separate the real revolutionaries out for one or two nights and then we can arrest them all.” Alleged Muslim Brotherhood and FJP…
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Article English EG Tier 2 Saad Eddin Ibrahim (Egyptian-American sociologist; "father of Egyptian civil society"; jailed under Mubarak) — from his article "Toward Muslim Democracies" (via New Lines): his signature argument for the democratic INCLUSION of Islamists — "enlist Islamists under the flag of democracy" — rather than their exclusion. Coiner of "jumlukiya"; democracy as the cure for both tyranny and fundamentalism.
it will be better for us as democrats, for the Islamists, and for Egypt to enlist Islamists under the flag of democracy.