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Calling for Justice and Human Rights on 10th Anniversary of Rabaa Massacre
Dear The Right Honourable Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Dear Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Next Monday, August 14th 2023, marks the 10th anniversary of the Rabaa Massacre that took place in Egypt, in which the military regime killed more than 1,000 protestors who held a 40+ day sit-in in Rabaa Square to demand an end to the 2013 military coup and restore democratic rule. The massacre has been described by Human Rights Watch as "one of the world’s largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history". Ten years after the massacre, the military leader who ordered it is now the president of Egypt, being welcomed by world leaders. According to Human Rights Watch, Egypt's prisons are filled with more than 60,000 prisoners. Instead of holding the military and security forces responsible for the massacre to justice, the judiciary in Egypt trialed the organizers of participants of the sit-in, and handed 12 death sentences and more than 31 life-in-prison sentences to them. On June 14th 2021, Egypt’s highest appeals court, the Court of Cassation, upheld the death sentences. Unfortunately, the Canadian government has remained silent since then. Such silence from Canada and the international community is giving a green light to Egypt's military dictator, Abelfattah El-Sisi, to indefinitely detain activists, carry out the executions, and deliver more death sentences to political opponents in the future. We hereby kindly request that you as an MP, and the Canadian government, to issue a statement to denounce the Rabaa Massacre, call for justice to its victims, call for a halt to death sentences against activists, and release the tens of thousands of Egyptians unjustly detained in Egypt's prisons. References: - Human Rights Watch, "All According to Plan: The Rab’a Massacre and Mass Killings of Protesters in Egypt", 2014/08/4, https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/08/12/all-according-plan/raba-massacre-and-mass-killings-protesters-egypt - Amnesty International, "Egypt: Death sentences upheld for 12 defendants after shameful mass trial", 2021/06/14, https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/06/egypt-death-sentences-upheld-for-12-defendants-after-shameful-mass-trial/ - Human Rights Watch, "Egypt: Commute Death Sentences for Rab’a Protestors", 2021/06/18, https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/06/18/egypt-commute-death-sentences-raba-protestors
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