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24 Saturday Jan 2015
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CAIRO, EGYPT – They are among more than 500 members of the Muslim Brotherhood sentenced to death in a mass trial for an attack on a police station in Minya, south of Cairo in 2013, during the military coup that ousted the democratically elected President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi.
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29 Saturday Nov 2014
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Egypt bans Muslim Brotherhood party http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-28722935
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25 Tuesday Mar 2014
TEMPLATE ANALYSIS
In Egypt today a court is trying the head of the country’s Muslim Brotherhood along with 682 others whose only crime is that they supported the ousted democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi, Below. This news follows the announcement yesterday that 529 Muslim Brotherhood supporters had been sentenced to death by an Egyptian court. Whilst in Bangladesh, the highly dubious war crimes tribunal which has already hanged a leader of the Jamaat e Islami, an off shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, has recommended that the largest Islamic organisation in the country be banned. And further to this, Saudi Arabia, the Wahhabi Kingdom who arguably created al Qaeda through its questionable interpretation of Islamic law, has banned the Muslim Brotherhood. The Gulf states have all followed Egypt’s lead in decaring the world’s largest non violent political Muslim organisation to be terrorists at a time when the chances of a democracy in those lands are more remote now than ever. It is clear that there’s an attempt to crush the Muslim Brotherhood in countries that are aligning themselves to the West. Perhaps, that is a condition of such an alliance. If that is the case, then this is a mistake for as Russia is now showing the West has lost all credibility when it comes to informing other nations of their obligations under international law – especially given its own reckless behaviour, and the actions of its allies whose kangaroo courts make a mockery of the modern world and its institutions.
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04 Monday Nov 2013
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TEMPLATE ANALYSIS
The democratically elected President of Egypt stood before the world, behind bars in a cage – his crime that he had ‘incited’ the murder of demonstrators.
If those who had orchestrated the coup to oust Mohamed Morsi from power expected him to cower they were to be disappointed.
Morsi is not the monster that was the military dictator Hosni Mubarak, the former leader who now lives in virtual freedom after the military apparatus he left behind orchestrated demonstrations, and committed mass murder against their own people.
If this is not a coup, then what is the Egyptian military doing on Tahrir Square?
And what is Morsi standing trial for?
The Muslim Brotherhood have shown they will not accept the actions of the Egyptian military who were backed by a noisy well-heeled elite who were furious at the prospect of losing their privileges to the poor who make the majority of the country.
They have also shown that despite the considerable risk of being killed they are prepared to stand up for a principle – namely that if you don’t agree with a government, wait for the next election and vote them out.
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07 Monday Oct 2013
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21 Wednesday Aug 2013
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An Egyptian court has ordered the release on bail of former President Hosni Mubarak in a corruption case.
Reports from Cairo suggest he may be freed from prison on Thursday, but the prosecution may still appeal.
The 85-year-old is also being retried on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during the uprising that forced him from power in 2011.
He was sentenced to life in jail last year, but a retrial was later ordered after his appeal was upheld.
That retrial opened in May but Mr Mubarak has now served the maximum amount of pre-trial detention permitted in the case.
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16 Friday Aug 2013
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15 Thursday Aug 2013
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TEMPLATE ANALYSIS
Egypt’s ambassador to London has denied the force used by his country’s military was excessive. He denied the use of sniper fire, and argued that the measures taken in the massacre were necessary to restore order and to protect the people of Egypt.
He drew parallels with the British police breaking up demonstrations in London two years go.
To make his point, he distributed videos probably compiled from Youtube which he says shows Muslim Brotherhood members firing at the police.
That was the tactic used by protesters who first gathered at Tahrir Square to oust the long-standing dictator of Egypt.
Unverified footage, was good enough then, why is not now?
Of course, as Sky News showed today, there are videos of the Egyptian security forces shooting arbitrarily and hitting protesters.
From day one of protests, as BBC’s Jeremy Bowen observed, the army has fired directly into the crowds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters.
The death toll is at leat 500 and if the Muslim Brotherhood are right is in excess of 2,000, and that does not include the injured.
As the casualty figures mount, Egypt’s military and government who successfully convinced the Americans that they were acting for the people when he overthrew a democratically elected President, are fighting a propaganda war.
The obvious parallel to these horrendous events is the putsch conducted by Gamal Nasser against the Muslim Brotherhood during the fifties.
Egypt’ suffered for decades afterwards with incompetent miliary rule headed by first Sadat and then Mubarak, who was only ousted two years ago.
Yesterday’s heavy-handed tactics has taken the Arab World’s most populous nation to into a new and more frightening direction.
The Muslim Brotherhood got what they wanted, Sky’s Dominic Waghorn said the Egyptian military is currently thinking, that is martyrs for its cause.
If that is indeed the case, then the bloodshed on 14/08/13 could well have ensured that the Egyptian military’s attempt at a counter-revolution to push back the ‘Arab Spring’ and to restore military-led control of the country has failed
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