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| Release Morsi to solve Egypt's current strife: Social Democratic Party head |
| 2013-07-14 |
| [Al Ahram] The way out of Egypt's highly divided political strife is to release deposed president Mohamed Morsi, says the head of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party (ESDP) Mohamed Abu El-Ghar in a televised interview. Morsi should "return home, unless he is required to stand before justice," Abu El-Ghar asserted to Al-Arabiya channel late on Friday. The former president has been held in a "safe place," to quote the interim leaders, and has not been seen in public since his ouster on 3 July. His supporters have been staging demonstrations nationwide calling for his release and reinstatement after the army removed him amid mass protests against his rule. On Monday, 53 people were killed and over 400 injured when pro-Morsi supporters, mainly from the Moslem Brüderbund, clashed with the armed forces at the Republican Guard headquarters in Cairo where they believed Morsi was held. In his interview, Abu El-Ghar said that releasing the former president should be part of a "reconciliation" deal to be reached with the Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails. He added, however, that the Brotherhood should acknowledge that those who went out on 30 June protests demanding that Morsi step down are many times the people who voted for him a year ago. Similarly, constitutional expert and leading member of the ESDP Mohamed Nour Farahat called for a clear statement on Morsi's legal position. If he is not accused of anything, he should be released, he said. Farahat wrote on his official Facebook page that if Egypt is to be a state of law, it should avoid "exceptional measures... It is either [Morsi] is accused of a charge that independent judges would investigate or otherwise he should be released immediately." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Maybe they could send him to Paris? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-07-14 09:19 |
| #1 I say use him as bait. |
| Posted by: gorb 2013-07-14 07:56 |