Nine rights advocacy organizations considered the re-forwarding of a draft on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by Abū al-Najā, “one of the figures of the former regime,” as more despotic than the current law and lending more control by the National Security Agency over activities of the civil society in Egypt in a more cruel way.

The organizations, in a statement, rejected that the ministry of solidarity and the National Security Agency should have any control over NGOs’ activities, adding the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has to rein in “the pro-Mubārak officials” otherwise showdown would grow more tense between SCAF and political parties and movements, including the civil society.

They also asserted that they would not accept but a democratic law allowing free civil action under rules of transparency. [Muhammad Hijāb, al-Ahrām, Jan. 19, p. 6]