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Egypt's ElBaradei faces court for 'betrayal of trust'
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Aug 20, 2013 02:42pm |
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| Author | Lin Noueihed |
| Media | News Service - Reuters |
| News Date | Tuesday, August 20, 2013 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt's former vice president, will be sued in court 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, brought by an Egyptian law professor, will be heard in a Cairo court on September 19, judicial sources said on Tuesday.
It points to the prospect of a new wave of politically driven lawsuits being brought to court following the downfall of President Mohamed Mursi, whose supporters brought a raft of cases against opposition figures during his year in power.
The cases, many of them for "insulting the president", have been criticized by anti-government activists as a form of political intimidation.
ElBaradei, former head of the U.N. nuclear agency and co-leader of the secular National Salvation Front, was the most prominent liberal to endorse the military's overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi on August 3 following mass protests.
But he made new enemies on August 14 by resigning after security forces used force to crush the protest camps set up by Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Cairo, killing hundreds of people.
The military's intervention against Mursi has polarized public opinion in Egypt and around 900 people have died in violence across the country over the past week.
The case was filed by Sayyed Ateeq, a law professor at Helwan University.
"I raised a case against Dr. ElBaradei. 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 coalition that led the anti-Mursi protests.
"Dr. ElBaradei was entrusted with this position and he had a duty to go back to those who entrusted him and ask to resign." |
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