Reuters, 22/10 14:17 CET
By Michael Georgy and Yara Bayoumy
CAIRO (Reuters) – As Egypt
cracks down on its Islamist dissidents, many of the country’s lawyers
are finding themselves on the wrong side of the law as well. Attorney
Mohsen al-Bahnasy says so many fellow lawyers have been arrested or
charged in recent months that he now spends much of his time defending
them in court.
One of the lawyers he represents is accused of
distributing leaflets supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist
group banned by the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
According to Bahnasy, his client, a lawyer, was in a police station with
his own clients at the time of the alleged crime. Bahnasy says the
lawyer, like others deemed sympathetic to the Brotherhood, has never
distributed such leaflets and is the victim of trumped-up charges.
An official in the police station said that the accused
lawyer had supported several Brotherhood protests. “It is not logical
that we would accuse him of inciting protests” if he had not done so,
the official said.
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Source: Euronews
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