Egypt to Release 11 Political Prisoners, Many Thousands Remain…….
“An official in the Egyptian prisons system said that the ministry of interior has ordered the release of 11 Shi’as who were arrested seven months ago for holding a ’meeting’. Among those to be released is Shaikh Hassan Shehata who used to be a preacher and imam in a large Sunni mosque in the Giza suburb of Cairo. Shehata used to host a television dialogue show during the 1980s and 1990s. An Egyptian human rights group said that Shehata was arrested once before and held for a year in 1996 ,along with 56 other Shi’as on charges of plotting to overthrow the regime and spreading Iranian ‘ideas’. Earlier, another Shi’a activist was arrested and held for demanding rights for the Shi’a community. Another famous activist, Mohammed el-Deraini was arrested in 2004 and held for 15 months on charges of ‘disrespecting religion and defaming the reputation of Egyptian prisons’……...”
So how stupid can Egyptian bureaucrats get under the stagnant rule of Hosni Brezhnev Mubarak (82+ years and in power for 28 years) and his rapacious sons? I like the part about jailing the man for "holding a meeting" and "disrespecting religion and defaming the reputation of Egyptian prisons". Especially the part about "defaming the reputation of Egyptian prisons".
Egypt did not use to have specific charges against sorcery and witchcraft, unlike Saudi Arabia and Salem (Mass.), as far as I know. Maybe they can take a page out of the Wahhabi legal system and charge some of the remaining many thousands of political prisoners with that.
A watermelon system of justice.
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