2008 Assessment

This peer-reviewed country report includes:

Integrity Indicators Scorecard: Scores, scoring criteria, commentary, references, and peer review perspectives for more than 300 Integrity Indicators.

Reporter's Notebook: An on-the-ground look at corruption and integrity from a leading local journalist.

Corruption Timeline: Ten years of political context to today's corruption and integrity issues.

Country Facts: Statistical context for each country.

Government accountability remains a significant challenge across all branches of government in Egypt. The media remain under pressure by the government, as witnessed in a recent case where the courts sentenced a journalist to six months in prison for "spreading false news pertaining to the health status of the president." No mechanism or appeals process exist in Egypt for citizens who are denied access to basic information, even within the court system. Egypt has an election monitoring agency, but it "is no more than a…tool [of the government]" and its inability to make recommendations or report violations renders it entirely ineffective.