Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Egyptian Court Rules for NGO, Allowing it to Receive ‘Foreign’ Funds from Rockefeller
An Egyptian administrative court ruled on Tuesday that non-governmental organisations have the right to receive foreign funding, a verdict which could be important in other ongoing cases where activists are being prosecuted for receiving "illegal" foreign funds.
The verdict stipulated that foreign funding is permitted as long as the Ministry of Social Solidarity doesn’t deem the NGO a harm to “general peace and security" or to have "negatively affected public morality...”