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This is such a worst PR excercise outside of egypt.Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt's former vice president, will be sued in court for a "betrayal of trust" over his decision to quit the army-backed government in protest at its bloody crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.
An Egyptian court today sentenced Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohamed Badie and his 682 supporters to death, a move that could raise tension in the country which has been gripped by turmoil since the ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi last year.
The convicts were accused of involvement in killings and attempted murder of policemen in the southern Minya province on August 14, the day police killed hundreds of ousted Islamist president Morsi's supporters in clashes in Cairo.
Of the 683 accused sentenced today, about 50 are in custody while the rest are either out on bail or on the run.
Several woman relatives of the accused waiting outside the courtroom fainted on hearing news of the death penalty.
In a separate case, the same court today reversed 492 death sentences out of 529 it passed last month, commuting most of the death penalty to life in prison.
70-year-old Mohammed Badie, a white-bearded professor, became supreme guide of the Brotherhood in 2010.
He had condemned the removal of president Morsi by the Egyptian military.
Morsi belongs to the Brotherhood, an Islamist movement which swept all elections in Egypt following the fall of military dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
Morsi's term was marked with political uncertainty and violence in a deeply polarised country that ultimately led to his ouster by the powerful military.
Egypt has been in political turmoil since the overthrow of Mubarak during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.
What a bloody military junta?! From Mubarak to Sissy... Oooops why not just invite Mubarak back, at least he and his cronies have been well fed while Sisi may be far more hungry a wolf.
His supporters see him as the kind of strong figure needed to stabilise a country in crisis. His opponents, mostly in the Islamist opposition, see him as the mastermind of a bloody coup that robbed power from Egypt's first freely-elected leader.
He has just saved his country from becoming another somalia.What a bloody military junta?! From Mubarak to Sissy... Oooops why not just invite Mubarak back, at least he and his cronies have been well fed while Sisi may be far more hungry a wolf.
Sisi urges big vote in Egyptian election; Islamists urge boycott | Reuters
Q's:He has just saved his country from becoming another somalia.
Problem started when he tried to re write Constitution In his favour filled with religious extremism.Q's:
1) weren't Morsi and Brotherhood democratically elected as a result of Tahrir uprising that overthrew the corrupt regime?
2) isn't Sisi like Tantawi from the old Mubarak camp?
3) was Sisi-led military coup against their democratic institutions, hence illegal?
@Kaalapani Not sure whether Sisi (and the military junta he stands for) would go the way as suspected above but IMO they (Sisi, Mubarak) are just birds of the same colour which a layman is instinctively allergic to.The mass death sentences that have been pronounced lately in Egypt have captured attention but are not even among the leading reasons for tailoring policy toward the regime of Field Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, because there always has been some uncertainty about how the Egyptian judiciary relates to whoever is in power in Cairo. Rather, what is disturbing is an entire campaign of other forms of harsh repression that clearly does have the top leadership's approval.
Sisi has considerable popularity right now and will almost certainly be elected in the coming Egyptian presidential election with little or no rigging being necessary. He is popular because he has charisma and political skill and because he projects the image of a strong leader who can impose some order on an Egypt that has been quite disorderly for more than three years. But his election can hardly be said to be the result of a fair democratic procedure when what would have been the strongest opposition has been banned and repressed.
An interesting additional dimension of life in Egypt today was recently reported by David Kirkpatrick of the New York Times: that an officially enforced religious intolerance prevails. Coptic Christians who thought they would enjoy more religious freedom when the military coup deposed the president from the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Morsi, have yet to see improvement on that score. They as well as Shiites and atheists are getting jailed on charges of contempt of religion.
Much of this has to do with the culture of Sunni-majority Egypt rather than with any one leader. But Sisi has set an unhelpful tone. He recently was observed on state television listening attentively to an imam who is an ally of his and was spewing inflammatory rhetoric that seemed to justify killing political opponents in the name of religion.
Not a lot is known about Sisi's private life and inclinations, but he has had a reputation for being a religious man. Morsi was the one who appointed him defense minister and head of the military. At the time this was seen as a sign of accommodation between the military and the Brotherhood. An important point to bear in mind in making sense of subsequent events is that, just as in Saudi Arabia, strong opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood need not have anything to do with opposition to injecting heavy doses of Islam into public policy. Indeed, as with the Saudi royal family, those who rely on religion in their own way to enhance their legitimacy are all the more likely to see the Brotherhood as a threat.
The situation in Egypt starts to bring to mind Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the military officer who ruled Pakistan for a decade, executed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and introduced the most sweeping Islamization of that country's history. Sisi probably will not push sharia to the same extent, but we don't know.
Mubarak probably has done much of his 3-year term if counting from the day he was under arrest. Sisi of the same military breed takes care of his old boss with only such a token sentence imposed, but is indeed ruthless towards MB with appalling death penalty in hundreds.Egypt prez Hosni Mubarak gets three-year jail : A court in Egypt has sentenced former President Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison after finding him guilty of embezzling public funds.His two sons, Alaa and Gamal, were also convicted and given four-year terms.
So even after extending voting deadline its still 47%. No one doubted who would be the winner, also no one doubted that sissi would get more than 95% of the votes polled?? So was elections even necessary??Egypt's president-elect, the former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, told Egyptians it is now "time to work" to rebuild the country after he was officially declared the landslide winner of last week's election.
Thousands celebrated in public squares around the country with cheers, fireworks and pro-military songs after the Election Commission officially announced el-Sissi's victory with nearly 97 percent of the vote in an election that it said saw a turnout of 47.45 percent.
El-Sissi is to be sworn in Sunday to replace Egypt's first democratically elected president, the Islamist Mohammed Morsi, whom the then-army chief ousted last summer. Since then, el-Sissi has ridden to power on the support of Egyptians craving stability after three years of turmoil, bolstered by a nationalist mania stoked by pro-military TV and newspapers. His supporters and the media have cheered the fierce crackdown on Morsi's supporters that has killed hundreds and arrested thousands the past 11 months.
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