Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt's former interim vice president, is being sued for a "betrayal of trust" over his decision to quit the army-backed government in protest at its bloody crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.
The case points to the prospect of a new wave of politically driven lawsuits being brought to court following the downfall of President Mohamed Morsi, whose supporters brought a raft of cases against opposition figures during his year in power.
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Anti-government activists had called those suits, many of them accusing people of "insulting the president", a form of political intimidation. ElBaradei's case, brought by an Egyptian law professor, will be heard in a Cairo court on September 19, judicial sources said on Tuesday.
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ElBaradei, the former head of the U.N. nuclear agency and co-leader of the secular National Salvation Front (NSF) grouping, was the most prominent liberal to endorse the military's overthrow of Morsi on July 3 following mass protests.
But he resigned on August 14 after security forces attacked the protest camps set up by Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Cairo, killing hundreds of people.
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The military's intervention against Morsi has polarised public opinion in Egypt. Around 900 people have died in violence across the country over the past week. Sayyed Ateeq, a law professor at Helwan University, filed the suit against ElBaradei.
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"He was appointed in his capacity as a representative of the NSF and the majority of the people who signed the Tamarod declaration," he told Reuters, referring to the broad movement that led the anti-Morsi protests.
"Doctor ElBaradei was entrusted with this position and he had a duty to go back to those who entrusted him and ask to resign" instead of stepping down on his own, he said.
Source: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/egypt-mohamed-elbaradei-faces-arrest-over--betraying--army/1157998/
The case points to the prospect of a new wave of politically driven lawsuits being brought to court following the downfall of President Mohamed Morsi, whose supporters brought a raft of cases against opposition figures during his year in power.
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Anti-government activists had called those suits, many of them accusing people of "insulting the president", a form of political intimidation. ElBaradei's case, brought by an Egyptian law professor, will be heard in a Cairo court on September 19, judicial sources said on Tuesday.
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ElBaradei, the former head of the U.N. nuclear agency and co-leader of the secular National Salvation Front (NSF) grouping, was the most prominent liberal to endorse the military's overthrow of Morsi on July 3 following mass protests.
But he resigned on August 14 after security forces attacked the protest camps set up by Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Cairo, killing hundreds of people.
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The military's intervention against Morsi has polarised public opinion in Egypt. Around 900 people have died in violence across the country over the past week. Sayyed Ateeq, a law professor at Helwan University, filed the suit against ElBaradei.
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"He was appointed in his capacity as a representative of the NSF and the majority of the people who signed the Tamarod declaration," he told Reuters, referring to the broad movement that led the anti-Morsi protests.
"Doctor ElBaradei was entrusted with this position and he had a duty to go back to those who entrusted him and ask to resign" instead of stepping down on his own, he said.
Source: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/egypt-mohamed-elbaradei-faces-arrest-over--betraying--army/1157998/
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