“Amnesty
International has denounced the death penalty handed down to former
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi as 'a charade based on null and void
procedures.'”
“'The
fact that he was held for months incommunicado without judicial
oversight and that he didn’t have a lawyer to represent him during
the investigations makes these trials nothing but a charade based on
null and void procedures,' Deputy Director of Amnesty International’s
Middle East and North Africa Program Said Boumedouha said on
Saturday. He added that the death sentence 'shows a complete
disregard for human rights.'”
“On
Saturday, a court in Egypt sentenced Morsi along with 105 others to
death for a mass prison break in 2011 during the country’s
revolution against long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak. Boumedouha
called on Egyptian officials to either release Morsi immediately or
retry him in 'a civilian court with full fair-trial guarantees.'”
“'Any
further criminal proceedings must be in line with Egyptian law and
international standards,' he added, noting that the death penalty has
become the favorite tool for the Egyptian authorities 'to purge the
political opposition.'”
“In
July 2013, Morsi, the country’s first democratically-elected
president, was ousted in a military coup led by the former head of
the armed forces and the current President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The
Egyptian government has been cracking down on any opposition since
Morsi was ousted, banning the Muslim Brotherhood movement and
arresting thousands of his supporters.”
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