Transitional Justice in Post-Revolutionary Egypt

Abstract

Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron offers a contrasting perspective on Egypt, where a highly biased version of transitional justice—or, in other words, no transitional justice at all—was implemented. Since February 2011, criminal cases against state officials have been dropped and fact-finding committees investigating massacres perpetrated by state officials either delivered conclusions favorable to the perpetrators or were silenced. In contrast, since the summer 2013, Muslim Brotherhood leaders and members, as well as secular revolutionaries, have been heavily prosecuted and subjected to harsh sentences.