The National Forces are calling on all activists to join the opposition MPs in their sit-in in front of the Parliament, this Tuesday 12 Noon, to protest Mubarak’s authoritarian constitutional amendments.
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Opposition MPs in Egypt have walked out of parliament in protest over constitutional amendments proposed by Hosni Mubarak, the president.
About 100 legislators, including independents and members of several opposition parties, interrupted the parliamentary session by staging a walkout.
Egypt’s Revolutionary Socialists issued a statement on Thursday denouncing the amendments.
Also, international rights watchdogs like Amnesty International denounced Mubarak’s amendments, describing them as the “greatest erosion of human rights in 26 years.”
Amnesty International today called on Egyptian members of parliament to reject proposed amendments to the country’s constitution, which the organization described as the most serious undermining of human rights safeguards in Egypt since the state of emergency was re-imposed in 1981.
The appeal came as the Egyptian Parliament prepared to approve this Sunday amendments to 34 articles of the constitution, including Article 179. The amendments to this Article would give sweeping powers of arrest to the police, grant broad authority to monitor private communications and allow the Egyptian president to bypass ordinary courts and refer people suspected of terrorism to military and special courts, in which they would be unlikely to receive fair trials.