In wake of protests, resignations threaten credibility of state human rights council

MomT's picture

Egypt Independent Al-Masry Al-Youm Sun, 09/12/2012 - 18:51

Dozens of thousands of protesters rally against Constitutional Declaration, Alexandria, 30 November 2012. Political forces called for mass protests all over Egypt to bring down the Constitutional Declaration issued by President Mohamed Morsy on 22 November. 

Hazem Gouda

Four members of the National Council for Human Rights submitted their resignations on Saturday, objecting to the council’s performance and stance toward the ongoing political incidents.

Abdel Khaleq Farouq, Ehab al-Kharrat, Ahmed Harara and Hanna Gereis submitted their resignations Saturday after four other members, Ahmed Seif al-Islam, Wael Khalil, Mohamed Zarei and Abdel Ghaffar Shokr, resigned last week.

To read the rest of this story visit Egypt Independent

 

Category: