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Human Rights Organizations calls Muslim Brothers and Lawyers:
Boycott Military Prosecutions

Cairo, 26 April 2007

Human rights organizations call the Muslim Brothers in Egypt to boycott the military prosecutions, which issue verdicts on a large number of Egyptian civilians who are members of the Brothers Group. Moreover, lawyers who are members or not members must boycott attending the sessions in a peaceful and legal attempt to face the unjust prosecutions.

In few hours, after the issuance of the third verdict of releasing the engineer Khairat El Shater and his colleagues, the government issued a decree to send them to prosecution before the Military Criminal Court. In no time, the first session assigned today Thursday 26 April 2007.

The human rights organizations added: "This is the fourth case for the Muslim Brothers before the military courts, the case was on the Year1995 and another one was on the Year 2000. Moreover, there is no need to attend the sessions before the military courts because they lack the legal standards and the verdicts issued rely always on political revenge not achieving justice".

The Organizations signatories state that presence of defendants and their lawyers will not help any proceedings but it will be a theatrical to pretend its legality and truthfulness.

The signatories calls the Muslim Brothers Group to cooperate in checking out the reality of these prosecutions and to boycott attending their sessions, even if it issued verdicts against the members of the group because it will be issued either they attended with their lawyers or not.

In addition, the signatories calls the Egyptian lawyers to boycott attending the prosecutions which, the government always transfer the political activists discarding being civilians or militants. Moreover, these prosecutions does not relate totally to the just ones, which is celebrate in all democratic countries. In consequence, it is a legal and peaceful way to support the citizens' civil rights in their trials before their normal judge in which he will have a just and neutral investigation in a justified trial.

The Signatories:
  1. Hisham Mubarak Law Center
  2. The Arabic Network for Human Rights Studies
  3. Horriya Center for Political Rights and Reinforcing Democracy
  4. Freedoms Committee in Lawyers' Syndicate
  5. Al-Nadeem Center for Physical Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture
  6. The Egyptian Organization for Combating Torture
  7. The Public Committee for Protecting Citizens in North Sinai
  8. The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights
  9. The Civil Observatory for Human Rights
  10. The Egyptian Observatory for Justice and Law
  11. Equality Organization for Human Rights in Port Said
  12. Legal Assistance Organization for Human Rights
  13. Maat Center for Legal and Constitutional Studies
  14. Freedom of Thought and Expression Center
  15. The Arabic Platform for Human rights Activists
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