Tag: ikhwan

Human Rights watch blasted Mubarak’s regime’s plans to try Khairat el-Shatter and his colleagues in military courts, in a statement today. The NYC-based rights watchdog insisted the Egyptian government “should release the hundreds of members of the Muslim Brotherhood detained solely for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and association.”

UPDATE: Socialists as well as other political activists have started collecting signatures from public figures, intellectuals and political celebrities from all tendencies, denouncing the military tribunals and expressing solidarity with the MB detainees. I’ve received the petition, and the names that signed already, but will postpone publishing it till the campaign organizers give me the greenlight, with more names being collected.