Maat center for Juridical and Constitutional Studies express his deep concern towards the issues verdict by military court in the trail of Tuesday's 15/4/2008 for 3-10 years imprisonment to 25 Muslim brotherhood leader and dismissed charges against another 15 from accusations charged.

The military court started looking into the case in April 26/2007 after in was transmitted to the military court by a presidential resolution in 26/11/2006 and the Cairo criminal court has issued a verdict for releasing all of them from D.A headquarter, case no.963 year 2006 national security so as the military court can continue discussing the case over 66 trail moreover the verdict was delayed two times.

The President made use of his right to transmit a case to the military court according to act no.5 year 1977 which states that the president can transmit the civilians accused in crimes listed in the first and second chapter of the second book of the Egyptian penal code and crimes related to the military court, specially within the case of emergency , moreover this transmition is the first time for article no.179 of the constitution to be used, gives the president the right to transmit any terrorist crime to any judicature side listed in the constitution or the law which was added among a bunch of constitution amendments for 34 article of the constitution that was put to referendum in 26/3/2007.

The events of this case goes back to the military display made by some students of Al-Azhar university affiliated to Muslim brotherhood and the capture of engineer Khairat Al-Shater along with number of the groups leaders and Azhar professors and students followed by the arrest of others during a coordinating meeting at the house of one of them and they were charged by the military D.A. For the following:
- joining a banned group established against the law's verdicts to hinder the state's associations from performing their duties.
- charge the accused from (1) to (21) of lingering and inverting money to fulfill the group's purposes as for accused from (22) to (29) they were charged for participating and aiding the first group in lingering money intentionally and with their full knowledge of what they were involved in.

the military court issued verdicts of different periods of imprisonment to 25 of the group's leaders and dismissed charges against another 15 from accusations charged in addition to dismissing all accused of lingering money, the court also ordered the confiscation of engineer Khariat Al-Shater and Hassan Malek's chare from (Malek) and (rawage) companies and all their branches, confiscating Hassan Malek's chare in (Al-Anwar) company, engineer Khariat Alshater and Ahmad Abdel-Ati chare in (Al-Hayah) and Ahmad Ashraf Abdel-Wares in (Dar Al-Nashr w Al-Tawzea Al-Islamy), Representing a hit to achieving the societal peace, the peaceful communication and the participation in public performance. For the sever verdicts issued from unnormal judicature and within which Maat Center for Juridical and Constitutional Studies want to stress on this notes :

First: Maat center declares it's rejection to the phenomena of transmitting the civilians to the military court and preventing them from their right to stand in front of a normal court and complain to a higher court which can't happen in the military and the emergency national security court and that through away any chance of a just trail, defenses preparation and meeting counsels in private in addition to the transmit resolution which contradicts with article 68 of the Egyptian constitution stating every civilians right of standing in front of a normal court and article 14 of the international covenant of civil and political rights which Egypt approved in April 15/1982 that equalizes everyone in front of the judicature and gives everyone the right ( to have his case fairly and publicly regarded from the specialized independent and neutral court established by law.

Second: reconsidering the cancellation of article 6 of the military penal law no.25 year 1966 and it's equality with act no.5 year 1977 which gives the president the right to transmit the accused of the listed crimes in the first and the second chapter of the second book of Egyptian penal code and related crimes to a military court within the state of emergency.

Third: Maat Center for Juridical and Constitutional Studies didn't only stop in front of the issues verdict from the military court against the civilians but also calls upon all the Egyptian forces and sectors to work on reconsidering the restricted laws , seeking it's amendments or cancellation in order to reach real respect to human rights according to all traditions, covenants and international, regional and local charters.

Fourth: paving the way to a societal dialogue where all patriot and political forces can participate in, to stress the freedom of opinion and expression to all forces within the law and the general framework of regulating the state and set priorities to achieve societal development without eliminating any sector or direction which serves the national interests and supports the peaceful practice of power in the Egyptian society.

Names of the convicted and the their verdicts

 

M	Name	the work	The punishment
1	Youssef Nada	businessman	10 years
2	Ali Hemet Ghaleb	Engineer	10 years
3	Ibrahim Farouk Al-Zayat	businessman	10 years
4	Fathi Ahmed Al-Khouli	Advocate	10 years
5	Tawfiq Al-Wa'i	Advocate	10 years
6	Khairat Al Shater	Second Deputy Guide	7 years
7	Good owner	businessman	7 years
8	Asad Sheikha	Engineer	5 years
9	Ahmed Shousha	Engineer	5 years
10	Sadiq Al-Sharqawi	Accountant	5 years
11	Ahmed Ashraf	General Manager of Distribution House	5 years
12	Ahmed Mohamed Abdel Ati	Medicines expert	5 years
13	Muhammad Ali Bishr	Member of the Counseling Office	3 years
14	Well known master	Director Omar Effendi	3 years
15	Mamdouh Al-Husseini	Engineer	3 years
16	Farid Gilbat	Professor at Al-Azhar University	3 years
17	Ziauddin Farhat	businessman	3 years
18	Salah El Desouki	A teacher of Al-Azhar medicine	3 years
19	Fathy Mohammed Baghdadi	Director of Al Masaa Schools	3 years
20	Ayman Abdelghani	Engineer	3 years
21	Essam Abdel Mohsen	Professor of Medicine Al-Azhar	3 years
22	Mahmoud Abu Zeid	Professor of Medicine Cairo	3 years
23	Mustafa Salem	Accountant	3 years
24	Issam Hashish	Professor of Cairo Engineering	3 years
25	Medhat Al-Haddad	businessman	3 years
26	Khaled Odeh	Professor at Assiut University	innocence
27	Saeed Saad Ali	Engineer	innocence
28	Muhammad Muhanna Hassan	Accountant	innocence
29	Mohammed Hafiz	A doctor	innocence
30	Muhammad Baligh	Professor of Ophthalmology	innocence
31	Mahmoud Al-Morsi	Engineer	innocence
32	Ahmed Ezz El-Din	Journalist	innocence
33	Jamal Shaban	Accountant	innocence
34	Yasser Abdo	Accountant	innocence
35	Mahmoud Abdel-Latif Abdel-Gawad	businessman	innocence
36	Osama Sharbi	General manager of a tourism company	innocence
37	Amir Bassam	A teacher of Al-Azhar medicine	innocence
38	Abdul Rahman Saudi	businessman	innocence
39	Ahmed Al-Nahhas	Engineer	innocence
40	Haji Hassan Zalat	businessman	innocence