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A Campaign to Save Egypt
02 Aug 2015: posted by the editor - International

By David Swanson
Message to The United Nations, European Union, United States, and all Democratic and Free countries
There are growing concerns that the government of Egypt intends to execute Egypt's first ever democratically elected President, Mohamed Morsi in the coming weeks. Mr. Morsi along with hundreds of political opponents received the death sentence following what major international human rights organizations described as a hopelessly flawed and politically motivated trials that ignored acceptable minimum international standards.

President Morsi was ousted during the illegal military coup led by the then Defense Minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and has been imprisoned ever since. President Morsi's death sentence and the impending execution of countless others (students, women, religious scholars, politicians, and academics)involved in working for democracy in Egypt presents a sobering example of the escalating violence and continual human rights abuses perpetrated against the Egyptian people since the Fourth Anniversary of the January 25 Egyptian Revolution earlier this year.

The mass executions is effectively a clear testimony for the death and end of democracy, freedom, respect for human rights, and justice in Egypt. The mass death sentences stand contrary to the principles that the Egyptian Revolution has promoted over the last four years, and it highlight the end in Egypt of the very principles that the international community stands for. We must not stand silently witnessing freedom and democracy being stripped away from the people of Egypt.

Failure to stop this tyranny now will result in further chaos and instability running rampant throughout Egypt and across the Middle East. Those who have seen their hopes and dreams for democracy shattered will now become easy targets for ISIS, al-Qaeda, and other militant groups, who on a daily basis increase their threat around the world by capitalizing on the frustrations of the oppressed.

The mass emigration of refugees that we see now will only increase as peoples seek to flee authoritarian regimes and militancy. It will therefore have a direct and immediate consequence on the international community.

The negative consequences of Morsi and hundreds of anti-coup activists being executed and the effect of an increasingly authoritarian regime cannot be underestimated. This is not a problem that affects an area of the Middle East many thousands of miles away; it is a problem that directly affects each and every nation.

We, as individuals and organizations committed to human rights and democracy, therefore communicate this message to the international community and demand an immediate action.

By its silence, tacit approval of the Egyptian government, or diplomatic recognition and foreign assistance, the international community is in effect facilitating the numerous human rights abuses perpetrated by the regime and lending credibility to a murderous regime.

The peoples of the Middle East following what can possibly be seen as a double standard are as a result now questioning the commitment of the international community to the rule of law and the observance of human rights. Such double standards could enable exploitations of the discontented youth by violent groups such as ISIS and others.

We would urge you to withdraw support for the current brutal regime of el-Sisi. We demand an immediate end to state violence against dissidents and an independent investigation of the flagrant and massive human rights violations, torture, rape and inhumane detention conditions of political prisoners in Egypt.

Respectfully,

Mohamed M. Marzouki, Former President Of Tunisia. President, Arab Council for Defense of RevolutionsDemocracy. Tunis

Annette Groth, German Member of Parliament and Spokeswoman for Human Rights

Professor Noam Chomsky
Institute Professor, retired MIT Cambridge, MA, USA

 

​Lord Alderdice
Life Peer at the House of Lords, UK Former
Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly &
Leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

James Abourezk
Former United States Senator

Mike Gravel
Former United States Senator

Baroness Tonge
Life Peer at the House of Lords, UK
Former Liberal Democrat MP, UK

Paul Flynn, Labour Party politician
Member of Parliament since 1987
UK

David Steel, Lord
Member of the House of Lords
British Liberal Democrat politician
Member of Parliament (1965-1997)

Gahame Morris MP
British Labour Party Politician,
Member of Parliament since 2010

 

Ramsey Clark, Human Rights lawyer and former U.S. Attorney General

Dr. Norman Finkelstein
Teaching in the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Sakarya University in Turkey

Alice Walker,Author, Civil Rights Activist,
Women's Rights Activist and poet
Pulitzer Prize-winning 1983. USA

Danny Glover
American actor, film director and
Political Activist. USA

Professor John Esposito, Professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. Director of The Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim, Washington DC, USA

Prof. Dr. Yasin AktayDeputy Chairman of Foreign Relations for Justice and development party in Turkey

Margaret Ritchie, Irish politician
MP for South Down. Former Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party

David Anderson, Labour Party Politician
Member of Parliament since 2005
UK

John Austin, Former Labour MP. UK
Past Chairman Council for Arab British Understanding. Past Chairman British Group Inter-Parliamentary Union

Andrew Love, British Labour Co-operative politician
Former Member of Parliament for Edmonton
UK

Nasser Al Duwaillah, Lawyer. Former MP, Kuwait

 

Valter Mutt
Member of the Swedish Parliament
Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
Sweden

Hillevi Larsson
Member of the Swedish Parliament
Sweden

Dominique Peschard, Former President

The Ligue des droits et libertés

Canada

Toby Cadman
Barrister-at-law, Chambers of Anthony Berry
QC -Founder of the International Forum for Democracy and Human Rights, U.K.

Medea Benjamin

Founder, Code Pink

U.S.A.

Michael Ratner, President
Emeritus Center for Constitutional Rights,Id 
New York, USA

Marjorie Cohn, Professor

Thomas Jefferson School of Law and

Former President of National Lawyers Guild

CA, USA

Professor Peter Erlinder(Ill. Bar 3124291)William Mitchell College of Law, MN (ret)
Director, International humanitarian law Institute. MN, USA

Dianne Mathiowetz, Co- ordinator, Georgia

Peace and Justice Coalition; Producer and

Co-host, the Labor Forum, WRFG 89.3FM;

Co-ordinator, Atlanta International Action Center. USA

Azadeh Shahshahani, President
The National Lawyers Guild
Atlanta, USA

Bruce Nestor, Past President

National Lawyers Guild

Minneapolis, MN, USA

David Gespass
Former President, National Lawyers Guild
AL, USA

Sara Flounders, Co-Director

International Action Center, USA

François Burgat, Political Scientist and Arabist
The head of the French Institute of the Near East. When Authoritarianism Fails in the Arab World. European Research Council. France

Alnayl Alfadel Mahmoud

President of African students union

Andrew Murray & Chris Nineham
Stop the War Coalition

Chris Doyle, Director

Council for Arab-British Understanding (CAABU)

Peter Oborne, British journalist
The Associate Editor of the Spectator & Former chief political commentator of the Daily Telegraph

Hacene Zitouni

Journalist, LondonUK

Marilyn Levin, Coordinators, United National Anti-war Coalition, USA

Joe Lombardo, Coordinators, United National Anti-war Coalition, USA

John Catalinotto, managing editor Workers World newspaper, USA.

Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action/USA

Phil Wilayto, Editor, The Virginia Defender newspaper, USA

Teresa Gutierrez, Coordinator May 1 Workers and Immigrant Rights Coalition, USA

Martine Eloy, Former-coordinator
The Ligue des droits et libertés
Canada

Beth Lamont, Program Coordinator, Humanist Society, Metro NY, USA

Dr. Anas Altikriti, CEO
The Cordoba Foundation, London, UK

Dr. Abdullah FaliqHead of Research
The Cordoba Foundation, London, UK

Olivia Zémor
President of CAPJPO-Euro Palestine
France

Thomas Bachmann

Committee Chairman to boycott Israel in Switzerland

Carl Buckley

Executive Director

International Forum for Democracy and

Human Rights, United Kingdom

Colonel Ann wright

Former United States Army Colonel and

Retired U.S. State Department Official. USA

Shift Wealth: Economic Democracy

It's Our Economy. Build power and resistance
Popular Resistance

Laifi Kamel, PhD

Diplomacy and International Relations professor & Human Rights Activist / Paris

David Swanson,Author and Director of World Beyond War

MRARI Abdelmajid

President of AFD International -France

 

Arun M. Gandhi

Gandhi Global Center for Peace

Norman Solomon, Executive Director

Institute for Public Accuracy

Shahid Comrade, National Secretary, Pakistan USA FreedomForum, USA

Bassma Kodmani, Professor

International Relations at Paris University

Former spokesperson of the Syrian National Council

Co-founder of the Arab Reform Initiative

Missy Crutchfield, Editor-in-Chief

Gandhi BE Magazine, USA

Melissa Turner

Journalist, Gandhi BE Magazine, USA

Democratize the Media
Clearing the FOG (Forces of Greed) Radio

Dr. Amin Aloosh,Secretary General

International Forum for Islamic Parliamentarians. Algeria

Kevin Zeese, co-director, Popular Resistance

Margaret Flowers, co-director, Popular Resistance

Aly R. Abuzaakouk, PhD

President the Libyan American Public Affairs

Council ,Elected member "Libyan Parliament"

Carl Arrindell

Chief Political Correspondent, Islam Channel

CEO, Public Interest Relations & Media

Ward Crutchfield

Former Senate Majority Leader

Tennessee, USA

Judith Berlowitz, PhD

Jewish Genealogy, Spanish Translation

Bay Area Women in Black. CA, USA

Na'eem Jeenah, Executive Director

Afro-Middle East Centre

Johannesburg South Africa

Professor Ovide Bastien,

Dawson College, Montreal, Canada

John C. Brittain, Attorney

Former president, National Lawyers Guild

Dr. Curtis F.J.Doebbler
International human rights lawyer

Joy Brown-Moore, Professor

Dawson College, Montreal, Canada

Aaron Kiely, Student

Broad Left. London, UK

 

Ann Schroeder

George Washington University

Graduate Program - Political Psychology USA

Dr.Ayman NourPresident, Ghad El-Thawra

V. President,

Arab Council for Defense of Revolutions and Democracy

Dr.Mohamed Mahsoob

Professor, Sorbonne University

Former minister of state for Parliamentary affairs

Ambassador Ibrahim Youssri

Attorney at law

Dr. Saif Eldeen Abdel Fatah

Professor of Political Science &

International Relations. Egypt

Abdelrahman Youssef, Egyptian Poet

Political Activist. Egypt

 

 

The Egypt parliament

National Alliance to support legitimate

The Egyptian Revolutionary Council

The National Movement to Support the Egyptian Revolution "Ghorba"

The National Lawyers Guild

Code Pink, USA

All 4 Justice

 

Collectifs des femmes pour les droit de l'homme Organization in France

Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition

Tawasol Organization for Human Rights, Holland

Center for Egyptian American Relations

 

Egyptians Abroad for Democracy Worldwide

Gandhi Global Center for Peace

Broadcasters Without Borders

The Cordoba Foundation

 

United National Anti-war Coalition, USA

The International Coordination Committee in Support of Rights and Freedoms

International Forum for Islamic Parliamentarians

International Action Center, USA

Association Justice for Egypt, Geneva

Egyptian Americans for Democracy and Human Right.

International Forum for Democracy and Human Rights

Libyan American Public Affairs Council

Egyptian Association for freedom and justice

We Care Organization

 

 

 

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