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Calls for Tunisia’s Marzouki to be banned from Egypt

September 10, 2018 at 3:04 pm

An Egyptian lawyer has filed a suit calling for former Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki to be banned from entering the country.

The lawyer accused Marzouki of plotting assassination attempts in collaboration with the Muslim Brotherhood in an effect to show that the Egyptian authorities are unable to maintain security in the country.

In his response, Marzouki said yesterday that he had no intention of entering Egypt while it remained under the rule of President Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi.

“I will remain opposed to the policies of mass executions, overcrowded prisons, poverty, oppression, and corruption,” Marzouki wrote on Facebook. “I will visit Egypt when it is liberated from the most stupid tyranny it has ever known.”

On Saturday, an Egyptian court sentenced 75 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death and more than 60 others to prison in a mass trial over their participation in a 2013 sit-in against a military coup that ousted the democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi. Security forces violently dispersed the sit-in, killing more than a thousand protesters.

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