The undersigned organizations announce their solidarity with the complaint submitted- by the family of human rights defender “Alaa Abdel Fattah”- to the Supreme Judicial Council so as to open a fair and transparent investigation into what they consider as a double standard treatment by the public prosecutor in dealing with their complaints. Some certain complaints, however, are being investigated immediately, while others don’t receive the same consideration or even their complainants find any action towards them; although these complaints had been filed months ago.
Mona Ahmed Saif Al-Islam Abdel Fattah together with others have previously filed a communique to Egypt’s public prosecutor over their detention, on 27 November 2013, in a car (N F W: 648), affiliated to the police, that was driven by some personnel in plain clothes who sexually harassed the girls and then left them in an abandoned place; in addition to imperiling their lives. This had been transpired after their arrest during a peaceful protest outside the Shura Council at 4:00 pM, on 26th of November, 2013. The female activists call for opening an investigation into the incident of attacking them as well as identifying those who were in the aforementioned car, in order to take the necessary legal measures against them.
Formerly, family of Alaa Abdel Fattah, on 29. December 2013, filed a complaint No. 19528/2013 (petitions to the public prosecutor) – concerning some incidents- in which they demanded investigations into the following:
1- The prosecution’s inaction over conducting investigations into abuses against “Alaa Ahmed Saif Al-Islam Abdel Fattah Hamad”, who is jailed over the case No. 12058/164- 2013 (Criminal Kasr Al-Nile) and is registered under the No.1447/2013 (investigation roll), and the No. 1343/2013 (central Cairo) and against his wife, Manal Bahay Al-Din Hassan, on 28 November 2013; while they were arresting “Alaa” over accusations related to the same aforementioned peaceful protest.
2- The practical procedures of transferring the imprisonment renewal hearings and examining Alaa’s appeal were at the opponents’ embrace ( the Interior Ministry’s executioners). Consequently, Alaa has missed a scope to appeal his incarceration decision by the procrastination of the public prosecution officials.
Several months on the complaint brought by Mona and Alaa Saif Al-Islam Abdel Fattah besides Manal Bahay Al-Din Hassan over the police’s abuses against them as well as more than two months on the complaints on the prosecution’s inaction to investigate those above complaints, nonetheless the same prosecution took only two weeks to order the referral of Alaa and others to the criminal court. Such a matter makes us along with the families of blogger “Alaa Abdel Fattah” and “Ahmed Abdel Rahman” strongly worry about the course of justice as well as the absence of rule of law in Egypt.
Also, the undersigned organizations hope that their complaints are met by fair investigations and ratifying the rule of law that they only seek. This is in order not to be reminiscent of the memory of those close periods when the law was to serve the authority and the ruling regime, despite its tyranny. They also hope that their complaints could be examined and investigated, with the goal of getting rid of injustice and the infringement of the law; regardless of the political stances or being far or close to the authority.
The signatories:
- Hisham Mubarak Law Center
- Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI)
- Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR)
- Egyptian Journalists Syndicate’s Freedoms Committee
- El Nadim Center for the Management and Rehabilitation of victims of violence
- Committee for Defending the Oppressed
- Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE)
- Misryon Against Religious Discrimination
- Center for Egyptian Women Legal Assistance (CEWLA)
- Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)
- The Egyptian Association for Community Participation Enhancement
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