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Egyptian President Cancels Visit To South Africa After Threats Of Arrest Arise

June 11, 2015
REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi speaks during a news conference with Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos (not pictured) after their summit at the presidential palace in Cairo, April 23, 2015. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi speaks during a news conference with Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos (not pictured) after their summit at the presidential palace in Cairo, April 23, 2015. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has cancelled a visit to attend the African Union Summit in South Africa on Thursday. This decision came after a lawyer’s association in the country filed an official request for his arrest upon arrival.

Al-Sisi was to arrive in Johannesburg on Friday to attend the summit entitled “Enabling African Women” which spans June 14 and 15.

According to an African diplomatic source who spoke to Anadolu Agency under condition of anonymity, Egypt informed South Africa that despite Al-Sisi’s absence at the summit, Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb will be attending as a representative of the Egyptian delegation due to the mentioned threats.

A member of the South African Muslim Lawyers Association, Attorney Yousha Tayoub, told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday that, “We believe Al-Sisi committed war crimes and crimes against humanity for the horrendous killings that resulted from the [2013] coup in Egypt.”

Accordingly, Tayoub added that the Egyptian president could be seized by South African officials for investigation and prosecution for his war crimes upon his arrival on South African lands.

“We have overwhelming evidence proving that Al-Sisi perpetrated war crimes and crimes against humanity. We have presented our evidence to the authorities and are hopeful they will act,” Tayoub said.

A South African advocacy group, The Media Review Network (MRN), also supported the call for Al-Sisi’s arrest.

“War criminals are considered enemies of all humankind; our young democracy must not be seen as a safe haven for such criminals,” the groups spokesman, Ibrahim Vawda, said on Wednesday.

Furthermore, Vawda called upon the South African government to be a responsible member of the international community by arresting the Egyptian president who has evidently committed a number of human rights violations since his election in June 2014.

The newly-elected government in Egypt has waged a rough crackdown on members and followers of the Muslim Brotherhood and former president Mohamed Morsi, the first democratically elected president in Egyptian history.

As a result, over 1,400 people have been reportedly killed, as well as 22,000 who have been detained. Additionally, there have been hundreds sentenced to death in mass trials.

Comments (50)

  1. Minymina says:

    F**king ikwani lawyer is so butt hurt his terrorist buddies are being killed and jelled that he decides to file a human right complaint. B!tch can go f**khimself.

    1. BreadFreedom says:

      Ignorant stup!d motherf**ker. As soon as you don’t like someone, call him ikwani.

      You see there’s not much difference between you and Saladino, you both jump to ridiculous conclusions to justify your personal opinions.

    2. Zera says:

      Saladino is an !diot.

    3. Sa says:

      يا اهبل يا ابن الهبلة
      محامي عيل لسة متخرج في دولة زي جنوب افريقيا طلع دعوات باعتقال السيسي
      يقوم السيسي يكسكس ويخاف
      وجاي انت تشتم المحامي وسايب رئيسك الاهطل
      احا على العقليات بنت الوسخة
      احا

    4. Minymina says:

      Let the butt hurt flow through you.

  2. Saladino says:

    Terrorist putschist criminal Al Sissy should be hanged. He is a Mossad agent.

    1. Minymina says:

      Ignorant stup!d motherf**ker. As soon as you don’t like someone, call him a Zionist.

    2. inti says:

      Al SISI is a puppet of the ZIONISTS p and a of OBAMA. Al NO NO is a Jew Zionists, his Parents were Jewish, or wannabe jews. Al Sisi, Nutsyahoo as Assad, will end up terribly, they will be killed by the same people who they terrorized and whose families they murdered…Do you want to bet?

    3. Minymina says:

      First he was a Mossad agent and now he is Jewish? F**k off.

    4. inti says:

      Let’s face it, AL NONO IS SATAN in personification just like NUTSYAHOO, BUSH, ASSAD… AND YOU SUCK THEIR STINKY FILTHY FEET…

    5. 123xxy says:

      you do not deserve more than 2 words: idiot & retarded

    6. Key says:

      In every MB response certain words are always used: “illegitimate,” “targeted,” “backing of the masses,” “armed thugs,” “cold blood,” “innocent,” and “farcical’ ‘jew zionist’ ‘obama’ – do you even know what that means?. Are all of the ikhwan (MB) sent to one school and taught how to respond? Original thinking might help — especially if it is based on truth. This crap is not.

      Hope your kids get adopted. Wouldn’t be good to ruin yet another generation of possibly intelligent human beings, because of clinically insane parents.

    7. moaz says:

      I think you can easily say your opinion without swearing it only shows you have a weak standing in the matter. See we should be be more civilized

    8. 123xxy says:

      do you call lying like shit and wrongly attacking others for personal gains “civilized”??

    9. Key says:

      And that’s why Egypt is exterminating 1st century cult garbage like you MB terrorists not just for trying to kill Egyptians but for distorting facts. Mossad huh..what’s next Egyptians are all CIA agents now because we saved Egypt from your destruction.