- Human Rights
- June 4, 2007
- 8 minutes read
Faisal Kutty: Egypt Should Have More Respect to Human Rights
Mr. Faisal Kutty, a Canadian attorney and human rights activist criticized the Egyptian government’s decision to try these civilians before military court stating that the International law is quite clear concerning such issues “The International Law has quite significant requirements as to when civilians can be tried or just go to military trials. I don’t think this is applied here in
He added “these individuals have already been tried by the civilian court, and found not guilty… there is no chance to do such military trials then other than being a political purpose to shut that opposition..”
He says, “I came here as an independent Human Rights monitor, an independent Human Rights lawyer from
Mr. Faisal Kutty comments on the fairness and impartiality of such military tribunals saying, “The government is basically running that tribunal. I don’t think this would be really satisfying because eventually if you have the executive which is the president appointing the military tribunals and taking such decision, how would that be independent or impartial?! Certainly there is no independence, and there is no impartiality.”
About his expectations for the verdict on the second session of the military trial for MB leaders, Faisal says, “Before the trial has even started, I think they had a verdict planned and decided… The only reason they are doing a military trial after a civilian one is because they wanted to get the decision that they have already planned for earlier, which is convicting people of political disobedience which don’t exist in fact.”
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