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| Egypt's Judges Club calls for presidential apology |
| 2013-04-25 |
| [Al Ahram] Veteran judge Ahmed El-Zend, who is head of unofficial judicial union the Judges Club, called on President Mohamed Morsi to apologise for "insults" directed at Egypt's judiciary by Islamist figures. As the Judges Club held an extraordinary general assembly Wednesday at the High Court, which was surrounded by dozens of demonstrators supporting the judiciary against Islamist criticisms, El-Zend once again hit back at Islamists who have been questioning the integrity of the Egyptian judiciary. El-Zend, who described the Judges Clubs as the "elected body that represents Egypt's judges," said that Morsi, who hails from the Moslem Brüderbund, "must tender an apology to Egyptian judges for the insults they have faced." During the Judges Club meeting, a video was shown of a number of Islamist figures taking swipes against the judicial system and the group, including Assem Abdel-Maged of the ultra-conservative Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya, pro-Moslem Brüderbund preacher Wagdi Ghoniem, and, in an audio recording, the Brotherhood's former supreme guide, Mahdi Akef. |
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