Head of legal team says prosecuting Egypt's coup leaders at final stages

The head of the international legal team commissioned by Egypt’s Freedom and Justice Party and the Muslim Brotherhood to investigate the crimes following the Egyptian coup d’état in July 2013, advocate Tayab Ali, announced that preparations to prosecute the coup’s leaders, along with all those responsible for violating human rights in Egypt, before the international courts has reached its final stages.

Ali told Al-Jazeera Live Egypt that: “His legal team will prosecute the military coup perpetrators before the International Criminal Court in countries whose judicial system allows trying war criminals and those who commit crimes against humanity.”

Egypt’s Freedom and Justice Party instructed Ali to supervise an international legal team to investigate the available evidence and question witnesses about the Egyptian authorities’ massacres against peaceful protestors following the coup d’état that ousted Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi.

Ali explained the team has faced difficulties in collecting evidence from Egypt and that the military backed government is obstructing their mission, but he vowed that they will continue their work until the end.