Zari accused - in an interview for the episode (9/21/2020) of the "For The Story Remains" program - former and current Egyptian officials of profiting from building these informal homes, including President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who held the position of Director of Military Intelligence during the era of ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

But Zaree - who is also the head of the Arab Organization for Penal Reform - admitted that many Egyptians did not observe the law when building their homes, especially in the middle of agricultural lands, but indicated that this was done under the eyes of the state that supplied these homes with utilities such as water, electricity, and others.

At the end of last month, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi spoke about the houses that his government classifies as violating, threatening at the same time to send the army to villages in all governorates to address building violations and encroachments on agricultural land.

Al-Sisi's speech was a categorical order for all government agencies to expedite without hesitation in implementing what was known as the Reconciliation Law, which is a law that calls on Egyptians who live in infringing homes to pay heavy fines, which most Egyptians from the crushed classes cannot afford to pay.

And a ruthless campaign was launched that was imposed on people, paying what some called a levy for the state, or evacuating their homes, which is "the hardships of their life", in preparation for their demolition.

The mosques and facilities built decades ago were not spared from the demolition, in a scene in which the Egyptian state seemed to punish its citizens for the corruption of its local government, the inadequacy of its administrative bodies, and its inability to guarantee the right to safe housing for its citizens.

A political adventure

On the other hand, lawyer and political analyst Asaad Haykal considered that solving the problem of slums and building on agricultural lands is a great political adventure by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, considering that no former Egyptian president has tackled this problem with such courage.

But Heikal considered that the timing of the implementation of the "reconciliation law" was unsuccessful, in light of the suffering of people due to the outbreak of the Corona virus.

The government structure demanded not to take violent measures through the police to demolish the homes of Egyptians, and to find realistic solutions to solve this problem, not including the removal.

He carried the structure of officials in the localities what turned out to be due to the spread of corruption, describing the matter as a "mafia" that manages these files.

For his part, Mohamed Zaree, Vice President of the International Federation for Human Rights and President of the Arab Organization for Criminal Reform, said that Egyptians are living a "big nightmare" due to the policy of Sisi, who is pursuing his plan for what he considers economic reform, by raising subsidies, increasing fuel prices and imposing more taxes.

In another matter, lawyer and political analyst Asaad Haykal criticized the authority in Egypt due to what he considered to be the absence of real political forces representation in the recently elected Senate, indicating that the same will be repeated in the upcoming House of Representatives elections.

Heikal considered that there is only one vote represented in these two councils, who are the owners of capital at the expense of the majority of the Egyptian people.