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Two political activists, Louay Omran and Mahmud Salem, and two lawyers, Islam
Khalifa and Yasmine Mahfouz, issued an open letter to the attorney-general
Sunday accusing Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi of indecent actions and
words.
The text implicates Mursi in ‘criminal actions’ that go against the controversial and newly adopted constitution that the Muslim Brotherhood president ironically backed, one that triggered anti-Mursi protests last year aimed at preventing the Islamist constitution from going to vote.
Published online on El-Watan, it calls for a criminal investigation into Mursi’s ‘indecent public assault’ and points to a video released on 27 September 2012 showing the president ‘touching sensitive parts of his body’ in a meeting with Australian Prime Minsiter Julia Gillard, shown at 17 seconds in the below video.
Citing Article 278 of the Penal Code, the letter says such immodest acts are punishable by imprisonment for up to a year or a fine of no more than E£300.
The statement also called for Mursi’s impeachment for using sexual connotations in his speeches, such as, “let them go to some shantytown and do wrong things,” saying that such expressions are incompatible with religious teachings and that they “negatively affect respect for the president.”
(Al-Akhbar)
The text implicates Mursi in ‘criminal actions’ that go against the controversial and newly adopted constitution that the Muslim Brotherhood president ironically backed, one that triggered anti-Mursi protests last year aimed at preventing the Islamist constitution from going to vote.
Published online on El-Watan, it calls for a criminal investigation into Mursi’s ‘indecent public assault’ and points to a video released on 27 September 2012 showing the president ‘touching sensitive parts of his body’ in a meeting with Australian Prime Minsiter Julia Gillard, shown at 17 seconds in the below video.
Citing Article 278 of the Penal Code, the letter says such immodest acts are punishable by imprisonment for up to a year or a fine of no more than E£300.
The statement also called for Mursi’s impeachment for using sexual connotations in his speeches, such as, “let them go to some shantytown and do wrong things,” saying that such expressions are incompatible with religious teachings and that they “negatively affect respect for the president.”
(Al-Akhbar)
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