Some time ago, Egypt was not only called the “cradle of civilizations” but also regarded and admired after a stupendous popular revolution toppling the Hosni Mubarak dictatorship. Nowadays, however, the country is being referred to with resentment and concern for the dirty tricks of the coup mongers targeting democracy, mass killings, where the judiciary “is serving” the regime. Following the first ever democratic elections, the president-elect Mohammed Morsi was overthrown on July 3, 2013 by a military coup d’état led by the Egyptian Defense Minister and the Chief of General Staff Abdelfatah al Sisi. Shortly after, a total of 529 members of the Muslim Brotherhood were arrested during the anti-coup protests in the southern city of Minya. On March 24, 2014, The Criminal Court of Minya sentenced to death 529 members of the Muslim Brotherhood. If the Grand Mufti, the country’s top religious official, confirms the decision (after a non-binding procedural review), the defendants will be executed.
The Egyptian judiciary is very well known for always being cheek by jowl with the military regimes that have sucked the blood of the country in the last 60 years. Today, it is seen clearly that the Egyptian judiciary, through an unprecedented “decision” in the history of law, makes a contribution to the array of arbitrary detentions, massacres and the state terror perpetrated by the junta to squelch the opposition.
After the July-2013 military coup in Egypt, atrocity, oppression and arbitrariness clearly cut across all boundaries.