European Parliament held last Wednesday a session that lasted for about three hours in Brussels for hearing expatriate Copts living in a number of European countries. During the session, the political situation under the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood and President Muhammad Mursī has been tackled.
The heads of the Coptic organizations submitted a legal memorandum to the European Union on the defective articles endorsed in the new Egyptian Constitution, demanding that the European cooperation with Egypt be depended in accordance with the progress of human rights on the ground. In their statement disclosed yesterday, the Coptic organizations declared that the current authoritarian regime in Egypt violates human rights and freedom of speech and disrespects international conventions and treaties. The statement, further, reflects that what is happening in Egypt now is a people’s demand for rights and freedoms for ending injustice and tyranny.
The legal memorandum included the calls for formation of a non-aligned new government to replace the actual "defective" Muslim Brotherhood one, according to the Netherlands representative Bahā’ Ramzī (Jamāl Jirjis al-Muzāhim, al-Yawm al-Sābi’, Feb.4, p.1). Read original text in Arabic.
