Ikhwanweb :: The Muslim Brotherhood Official English Website

With growing concern, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) follows developments in the way the coup regime in Egypt is dealing with the country's legitimate President, which indicates that this regime has no respect for the principles of justice enshrined in the Egyptian constitution or international constitutions and conventions. This is not surprising, though. The military-installed regime does not respect or honor its commitments even to its closest allies.

Forced detention of the democratically elected President will remain this regime's biggest crime. Allowing it to persist in its crime is a real shame on regional and international organizations and communities. Their indifference has encouraged the putschists to commit more crimes against the elected President. They prevent his family from visiting him at his place of detention, and ban visits by his defense team. Finally, they did not transport him to the venue of the sham trial on false pretexts and flimsy 'bad weather' excuses, in a hostile climate of incitement and provocation trumpeted by the junta's intelligence agencies about schemes to eliminate the legitimate President.

The FJP, therefore, warns the military-appointed authorities that if any harm befalls the person of President Morsi, it will hold them fully responsible for the consequences.

The FJP calls on the United Nations and all relevant international organizations to shoulder their responsibilities, play their important roles, and take action with regard to the heinous crime of forced disappearance, or evident abduction. They must force coup authorities to respect human rights, refrain from endangering the life of the President, enable his family and lawyers to communicate with him, and enable international organizations and human rights organizations to monitor the farcical trial.

The FJP calls upon the world community, international organizations and free peoples of the world to uphold the values ​​of justice and respect for human rights, in support of the region's stability, to avoid serious unrest that may well impact the stability of the international community as a whole.

Freedom and Justice Party

Cairo : January 9, 2014