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Morsi’s 20 year sentence condemned

October 25, 2016 at 5:57 am

The Egyptian Revolutionary Council released a statement on Monday that strongly condemned the 20 year jail sentence handed down to deposed former president Mohammad Morsi.

Morsi, who was Egypt’s first democratically elected president, came to power after the large scale protests brought about the end of Egypt’s military dictatorship in 2012. However just one year after taking office Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood government fell to a military coup led by the current president, Abdul Fatah Al Sisi.

According to the statement, Dr Maha Azzam, Head of the ERC said

This is a kangaroo trial which has been condemned in the strongest possible terms by Amnesty International as a travesty of due process and judicial impartiality.

The statement goes on to accuse Sisi of “demolishing the Egyptian economy with frightening haste through sheer ineptitude” and “creating a swell of massive popular resentment through the barbaric repression of his security apparatus which will inevitably lead to dire results”

It goes on to blame the current status quo on the “uncritical backing of western democracies, who must now acknowledge that they have some responsibility for the events unfolding in Egypt” and finally suggest that,

regional instability … will inevitably spill over to Europe either through a greater influx of refugees or, God forbid, further acts of mindless terrorism