El-Baradei: Law without justice becomes a tool of repression

Egypt’s former presidential candidate Mohamed El-Baradei has entered into the ongoing controversy over Egypt’s judicial decisions, saying that law without justice is nothing but a tool of repression.

El-Baradei wrote on his Twitter account: “The history of racism in South Africa reminds us that when the law is separated from the concept of justice, it turns into a mere tool of oppression and tyranny.”

Recent sentencing decisions made by Egyptian courts have stirred international controversy, including the most recent sentencing to death of the country’s former president Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 Muslim Brotherhood members, leaders and supporters on charges of espionage and complicity in a mass prison break that took place in 2011.

Recently, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry expressed its concern over a Cairo court decision to execute “the first democratically elected president of the country”, stressing that the judicial system must be based on “justice and fairness”.

Egypt has denounced all criticism of its justice system.