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Appointing New Prosecution and Releasing al-Shraqawy and al-Shai'r:
Will Muslim Brothers' Prisoners of Opinion be released? Will there be an End to Impunity in Egypt? Cairo- 20 July 2006 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo) welcomed today the orders issued by the newly appointed public prosecutor to release the two prisoners of opinion Mohammad Al-Sharqawy and Kareem Al-Shai'r, who have been unwarrantedly jailed for two months. They were arrested for supporting the Egyptian Judges' movement calling for judiciary independence. The release orders were issued last Tuesday. Al-Sha'ir and al-Sharqawy have been already released on Wednesday night, in a step that could be considered a correction attempt, yet will not be totally correct unless police officers of Kasr El-Nil station have been investigated in the action of practicing torture against the two political activists. Though Al-Sha'er and Sharkawy's lawyers have submitted several official requests to investigate with the police officers in the actions of practicing torture against Al-Sha'ir and Al-Sharqawy, and to confirm this in their renewing sessions, the former prosecution had not taken any measures to investigate with the head of Kasr El-Nil police station, nor his deputy -the one who filed the arrest report against Al-Sharqawy. "We hope that the newly appointed prosecutor would be a change in policies not only in names. The least that could portray the former prosecution is (times of impunity in Egypt), it has immensely disappointed all the pro democracy in Egypt. We demand the rule of law, not the rule of police men and law" said Gamal Eid, HRinfo's executive director. HRinfo recommends that the newly appointed prosecution starts with enforcing the rule of law: releasing all Muslim Brotherhood's prisoners of opinion, including Dr. Essam El-Erian, Dr. Ibrahim Al-Za'farani, and other prisoners who are illegally detained, limiting the powers of the political police known as "State Security" and lift its control over Egypt's political life. |
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