Human rights institutions and centers condemn the prosecutions of human rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim.

It calls for an immediate investigation into the allegations that an activist tortured him at the hands of the police

The institutions and human rights centers that signed this statement received with great concern the news of the ruling of the Caliph Misdemeanor Court yesterday to imprison Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Director of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, for a period of two years with work and a 10,000-pound bail, for accusing him of “false allegation and defamation of Egypt” in Abroad, in a case brought against him by Abul Naga Al-Mahrezi, the representative of the Bar Association in Giza, and one of the well-known defenders of freedoms and human rights,

The court had relied on a report on the Egyptian Foreign Ministry that supported Al-Mahrazi's allegations that Saad incited America to cancel its aid to Egypt and link it to political and democratic progress. The lawsuit papers also included articles by Saad, which the judiciary said would harm national security and the higher interests of Egypt, while the director of the center is cursed. Ibn Khaldun fears of arrest in the event of his return to his country, which are fears that many activists inside the country also echo if they are exposed to the government with criticism.

The organizations confirm that the accusations leveled against the director of Ibn Khaldun may affect most Egyptians residing abroad for any reason, especially those calling for the release of freedoms and support for democracy, activists of all sects and their political and religious affiliations, and the ruling directly confirms the threat of any political or human rights activist if he participates in any activity. International or speaking in any non-Egyptian media expressing his opinion about the Egyptian democratic situation and that it is important when we are dealing with this kind of issues that affect human rights and political activists that we look at the matter with the eyes of the bird and not the view of the minor who can see only under his feet and that the world is looking at Egypt Which is supposed to be the locomotive of democracy and development not only in the Arab world, but in the entire Middle East. Such judgments and cases are a black mark added to the dress of democracy and human rights in Egypt, in which the black marks are sufficient. The establishment of this type of lawsuit is a historical retreat that reminds us of its past vows and a poor performance that is out of date and that these actions are in addition to the cases of imprisonment of presidents The four liberation issues in publishing issues are matters that strike at the core of the Egyptian body. Also, following up on activists and human rights defenders is something that may exist in a dark country in the heart of the brown continent, not in a country that is supposed to have advanced like Egypt.

The organizations signatory to the statement reject the idea of prosecutions of opinion-holders, political ideas and human rights activists of all kinds, call on the lawyer colleague - the owner of the litigation for the assignment of the director of the Ibn Khaldun Center - to retract it and announce his support for the principles of freedom of opinion and expression and the conventions confirmed on it, and also calls for human rights organizations to Signing a collective statement condemning any prosecutions of activists, journalists, and defenders of freedom of opinion and expression, and providing legal support to Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim in his case, which carries political accusations against him and his position.

In a related context, Maat Center expresses its concern about the continued exclusion of the Public Prosecution conducting impartial and impartial investigations into incidents of violations affecting activists and human rights defenders, and the Center calls for an immediate and impartial investigation into the accusations of the activist Mamdouh Al-Munir, the media advisor to the People's Representative Saad Al-Husseini in Al-Mahalla Al-Kubra, to the police of torturing him last April. Against the background of a popular strike organized by the Internet youth, popular groups and Egyptian protest movements, to object to the poor economic and political conditions that the poor of the Egyptian people suffer, and the Center considers any negligence by hospital doctors and detention centers in which "Al-Munir" was present, as a breach of the duties of their profession and trespassing and unfairly on the fair oath. To preserve and respect its principles, Maat demands an investigation with any doctor who is found to have colluded with any party against a citizen who needs treatment or to prove injuries resulting from violations that occurred against him outside the law, and he also calls on the Doctors Syndicate to activate its control over the practices of its members, especially those working in places belonging to bodies that put pressure on them.