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Cairo,4/12/2003
The Association for Human Rights Legal Aid received the news about detaining Mohammad Bahaa Eldeen Elsaied Nada (Engineer) who is charged with instigating to and disdaining the regime. The lawyers in AHRLA immediately moved to his residing place in AlZagazig Town, Al-Sharqia governorate to take the necessary legal procedures in case of the correction of the news. Mohammad expressed his opinion peacefully in a public concern, which is the issue of (presidency inheriting), the issue is brought up on the newspapers pages, also the president of Egypt, had stated, earlier to the national and international news agencies that (this issue is not put forth because Egypt is a republican state) Mohammad wrote the sentence (No to Presidency Inheriting) on the walls in Al-Zeraa square, in the road to the university, and on the fence of the monuments of Tal Basta Area at Al-Zagazig town. On Sunday 30/11/2003 a force of police officers and State Security officers along alongside a number of detectives attacked his house, inspected it, seized his personal properties and confiscated his car, then they took him to Al-Zagazig 1st police station, where he was detained with other criminals. The next day, he was submitted to the prosecution with the charge of instigating to and disdaining the regime in the communiqué No 8391/2003 Admin, Al-Zagazig 1st police station, the prosecution decided 15 days detention. During the prosecution investigation, Mohammad did not deny that he did write the sentence "No to Presidency Inheriting " on the walls. Mohammad considers and knows that it is his constitutional principal right to express his opinion peacefully. AHRLA's lawyer met Mohammad's family members and went to visit Mohammad in his prison to get the details and be able to provide him with the legal aid during the investigation and later. AHRLA would like to express its refusal to the attitude of the police towards citizens particularly when it relates to the freedom of expression cases. Dealing with citizens in such terrifying way would create a state of insecurity and instability, in addition to its being in contradiction with the alleged democratic vent and what recently has been repeated widely, about realizing the citizens' rights. Also AHRLA considers this attitude from the executive authority not in consistency with the political will which in its turn expressed in more than one occasion its situation towards presidency inheriting, stressing on the fact that the regime in Egypt is republican. AHRLA calls for the president of Egypt Mr. Mohammad Hosny Mubarak to interfere for the sake of immediate release for Mohammad Bahaa El-Deen, and asks the Public Prosecutor and the Attorney General to wrap up the investigation in that charge, for expressing opinion peacefully is not illegal, but just a mere practicing of a principal constitutional right. The very sentence was written and published many times before in the newspapers by honest and credible journalists. Finally, AHRLA forward its message to the security apparatuses in Egypt, asking them to comply with the constitution, the national laws and the international instruments in its manner in dealing with citizens, and to stop chasing citizens with incorrect ambiguous charges such as the supreme sake of the nation, a manner that goes in contradiction with the recommendation adopted in the last conference of the National Democratic Party under the motto of " Citizen's Rights come First", of which one major themes was improving the image of police. |