مركز ماعت للدراسات الحقوقية والدستورية

AFTER DETAINING EGYPTIAN BUSINESSMEN … MAAT ASKS

WILL THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR BEAR THE LOSSES OF THE EGYPTIAN MEN

25/12/2006

Maat Center received with extreme grief and sorrow, the news of detaining Egyptian businessmen, closing their trading companies and making the workers sustain heavy losses due to these arbitrary security resolutions based upon extraordinary authorities, which violate the constitution and the international charters – the resolutions that based upon the suspected Emergency Law. The detention of Ahmed Shoshah (the owner of contracting company), Agsam El Taweel (the manager of publishing house), Ahmed Ashraf ( the head of publishing house), the businessman Hassan Malek and Dr. Mohammed Hafez, arouses anew the Center's astonishment due to the accusation of belonging to Muslim Brotherhood Group which becomes ready for whoever chosen by the Security Bodies as the victims of their tricks with this public Group, which do not adopt any 'Jihadi' trends or the idea of judging others as unbelievers and which do not work secretly.

In addition, the number of the representatives of this Group in the parliament is four times more than the other parties, which neglect their political role, and the only role they play is inside their unknown center, because of the Emergency Law which do not give any of them the chance to exist really in the Egyptian arena, so that the historical parties would loss their position and leadership in the political work for the benefit of other forces that the government knows well.

The question that the Center suggests: Will the state's budget bear the costs of such security activity that is always directed towards the interior peaceful forces and that ignore the real combating of real terrorism, so that the innocent would be the victims of its security operations along with ready and arbitrary detention resolutions and operations against them? Will the budget of the Ministry of Interior bear the losses of direct and indirect victims of detention and its disasters generations after generations, and will the men of the Interior, who carry the ready detention resolutions, compensate the victims for their lost rights? Is the government able to confront suspected businessmen, either Egyptian or not, who stole from the state more than what they gave?

The more urgent question: does the government follow the policy of starving the opposing parties through detention and economic sanctions … and is it proper for the government of a civilized country to exercise such ways with its citizens?

We think web are not now concerned with boring and repeated condemnation and denouncing, or with reminding of citizenship rights, constitutions and international charters, but we are really astonished and ashamed of the attitude of the Egyptian Security Bodies towards the peaceful national forces… and nothing more.

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