New Delhi: In a verdict an Egyptian court sentences 683 to death in another mass trial including the Muslim Brotherhood’s chief Mohamed Badie on Monday that has been drawing sharp condemnation from international rights groups and Indian Muslim organizations. After All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat, the largest Muslim organization Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has also strongly condemned the shameful act of the Egypt’s military junta which is following a systematic campaign to convert or purge the opposition by any means necessary since the military coup that removed an elected president from power.
While demanding to United Nations to intervene and stop the Egyptian government from these inhuman acts of revenge, Jamaat said it is the worst form of human rights violations as the ruling junta of Egypt is not respecting even a shred of justice. “Continuation of the chain of worst decisions in human history and a gross violation of the demands of justice”, it said.
In a statement, Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari, President of Jamaat said the judge who pronounced death sentences to the 683 people including the Supreme Guide (chief) of Muslim Brotherhood Dr Mohammad Badie is the same who awarded death sentences to 528 other supporters of Brotherhood one month ago. These two ‘judgments’ clearly prove that General Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi, who unjustly and illegally toppled the democratically elected government of Dr. Mohammad Morsi last year, now wants to strengthen his illegitimate regime by killing the servants of Islam through fake courts. Maulana Umari said that trampling of democratic values, toppling of a democratically elected government through illegal means and then awarding brutal punishments to the people who raise their voice for truth and justice are unimaginable in today’s world.
Jamaat chief urged the United Nations and human rights organizations of the world to strongly protest against this brutality and stop the Egyptian government from these inhuman acts of revenge. He said it is very surprising that the Egyptian court has not shown any seriousness – neither in the latest judgment nor in the past one. Rather, the cases were tried summarily and death sentences were awarded to hundreds of people. This has surprised the West also. Even if the arrested people had committed a ‘crime’ by protesting how this large-scale death punishment can be justified? Expressing solidarity with all the righteous people who are facing the onslaught of General Al-Sisi in Egypt, he assured them that sympathies of all justice- and democracy-loving people are with them and they all are praying to Allah for their victory.