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Maat Calls for Judicial Solidarity with Ibrahem Eyesa, and Calls upon the Government to Put New Machineries to Deal with Journalists Away From Courts.

12\09\2007.

Maat Center for Judicial and Constitutional Studies observed with great worry the news of the journalist Ibrahem Eyesa’s trail in a summary court before Bolaaq Summery Court, after security body accused him of circulating a rumor about the state president’s health and so effect the economy as the stock lose about 350 million $ during the two days of the rumor as the investigations mentioned.

The center announces his situation of sever rejection to the journalists’ trailing before Criminal Courts in cases related to their profession’s matters and their pens moving. The center regards their current case, their repeating trail before courts, is a matter not suitable for democratic states and conflicted with charters and international treaties which provide the journalist’s right to express his opinion, the freedom of expression, and his right to exert effort to search for the reality.

Talking about the president’s health and trying to ask about it is a right of every civilian according to the center’s point of view, and this subject is not only for journalism. We holy confess that circulating rumors and lies is refused. But the talk about the president’s health take much more than the real matter required in newspapers tackled the rumor. This may be a result of the absence of any official reaction and that there is no officer appeared to deny this news. In similar situation, governments of democratic countries deal in transparency so the private doctor of the president or the Minister of Health reassure civilians about their president’s health. The country’s president is the president of all the people and his news have not to be private for special body or to be hiding from those who are concerned. In the Egyptian case we see that the president of the state is the president of all executive bodies in the country and we can not imagine that his news can be away from civilians. Sensitivity of the Egyptian situation, the country’s statues and history in the region, are matters which display the wrong in dealing with people in this case whatever the result is.

The talk of the stock collapse or its effect by the rumor is a normal thing in the most capitalist countries which international stocks changed every minute according to international accidences do not relate to an official man’s health here or there. The responsibility of the stock’s collapse in Egypt can not be on an individual has not but his pen and his wage for his writings all his life time do not reach 50 % of the announced number of the stock loss.

We might inquired about other causes of the Egyptian economy collapse, let us ask the government about billions of pounds escaped abroad many years ago, and ask about the governments’ methods to regain them. In addition, we may ask about international and governmental reports about violation bill which spread in most of the state sectors and in public   sector companies to ruin it and sale it. In other words let us ask about Ibrahem Eyesa’s salary and about the minimum brokerage of the smallest briber, or about the loans escaped from our banks.

The government which high council for journalism held today to condemn the newspapers which published the rumor of the president’s illness has to review it self and to put new machineries in dealing with those who carry pens and with men of opinion away from courts, in which there are journalists chased by unknown, and by men has not any responsibility, and even by corrupted men the journalist wanted to set them right.

Finally Maat center calls upon judicial organizations and active men to support journalist writer Ibrahem Eyesa in his soon trailing session, and calls upon the free judiciary to make the freedom of opinion and expression overcome ways of darkning and complexity under unfair legislative organization which created laws to chained civilian’s freedom as well as those who carry pens.

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