Sisi's massacre-like executions

Last Wednesday morning in Egypt, 9 young dissidents were hanged and executed pursuant to a decision by the court under the coup-maker Sisi's rule. Another 6 people had been executed the week before. Thus the number of those executed within two weeks reached 15.

The crime attributed is in fact not very important, because

in Egypt, it is first decided that certain people will be killed, then a suitable crime is fabricated for them, and the murder is carried out through a court decision and then execution.

Whether the crime fits is not important. Let Sisi's friends see it in the shopping. A court show and a verdict.

The judges who issue the verdicts are known in Egypt as the "execution judges," dark-eyed, all graduates of law school yet without the slightest share of law. All of them are members of the "terror court" established by Sisi after the military coup carried out in 2013 to silence, purge and eliminate dissidents. A few examples of the judges of these sham courts who work like executioners:

Muhammad Nagi Shehata, who gained fame for the black glasses that he does not take off even in court, is known, according to newspaper clippings, for the 263 death sentences he handed down at one time.

Hasan Farid, this judge who has signed 147 death sentences is also the one who handed down the executions of the last 9 people.

Shaaban al-Shami, a judge who sentenced more than 160 dissidents to death, many of them in absentia, that is, without taking their defense, without hearing the parties, without trying them. Among those he sentenced to death are Muhammad Morsi and the head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, Yusuf al-Qaradawi.

Said Sabry, this judge known to have issued death sentences for hundreds of people, referred the death sentences of 683 people to the mufti in a single session, and in the same court's ruling gave life imprisonment to 496 people. He not only rejected the cases brought by the relatives of those killed by the police in the 25 January Revolution, but also charged the court costs to the relatives of the slain.

Muhammad Sherin Fahmy, a judge with more than 46 death verdicts, currently serves as one of the important judges of the terror chamber.

The crime attributed to the young men most recently executed after being tried in the courts of these judges is, for example, the assassination carried out against former Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat. The event called an assassination is this: A bomb explodes where the prosecutor general's vehicle passes. The exploding bomb does nothing to the prosecutor general; indeed eyewitnesses even say that the prosecutor general got out and inspected the scene. But some people say that because of the explosion the prosecutor general must go to the hospital and take him to the hospital. The news spreads that the prosecutor general died in the hospital shortly afterwards.

Upon this news, in an operation launched swiftly as if previously arranged, many young dissidents are arrested. Each of the arrested young men is a well-raised, educated, well-liked person among those around him, a distinguished personality with leadership capacity. After they are arrested, they are put through heavy torture and made to confess that they assassinated the prosecutor general.

The following dialogue in court between Mahmoud al-Ahmadi, one of these young men, and the presiding judge has already become the symbolic dialogue of this horrific state murder.

"Mahmoud: Woe to the judges of the earth from the Judge of the heavens. We will call you to account for this before God on the Day of Judgment; you know very well that I and those with me are oppressed.

Judge: But you confessed to your crime, Mahmoud.

Mahmoud: Bring me that electric apparatus, let us go into a room together, by God I will make you confess that you killed Anwar Sadat. We were given enough electricity to last Egypt twenty years."

The physical evidence that all the statements were obtained under very heavy torture was in fact also reported in the media. When such a claim is made, it is one of the most basic tenets of all the world's standards of justice that no sentence can be given on the basis of a confession, and that at the very least these claims must be investigated. Despite this, without these claims being investigated, the death verdict was issued hastily in a single session. Because the point was not to find the culprit. It was to round up and slaughter pre-selected people under the pretext of a crime.

In essence, the crime called the Prosecutor General assassination reeked of an Egyptian deep state operation. In fact, the first to object to this court and its verdicts, saying "we do not believe these young men killed our father," was the family of the slain Hisham Barakat.

All this shows that the Egyptian people are currently under terrible captivity in the hands of Egypt's coup-maker dictator. We are not even speaking only of the fact that around a hundred thousand people currently held arbitrarily in Egyptian dungeons live under the heaviest conditions of torture. The whole Egyptian people are currently living in such an atmosphere of insecurity.

Of course, especially those in the prisons where the heaviest torture conditions exist are each like a Jamal Khashoggi. The reality that the Jamal Khashoggi murder exposed is that in these countries a citizen has no guarantee whatsoever against the violence of his own state. What makes a state a state is that it ensures the security of the life, property, intellect, lineage and religion of its own citizens. Instead of ensuring this, there is unfortunately no power to protect the citizen against a state that disposes as it wishes over all these human rights. The attention the world has shown to Jamal Khashoggi should have drawn attention precisely to the systematic murders in an order that Khashoggi's killers protect and support. If there is a debt to be paid to Khashoggi's memory, it is this.

The Khashoggi murder is unfortunately a typical model of the order that BAE and SA have established in the Middle East. While there are tons of such acts in their own countries, it must be seen that they are trying to make this order of theirs prevail as a model in Egypt and all the other countries they are involved in.

One of those responsible for the massacre-like executions in Egypt is of course Sisi, but the main responsible are those who support and finance him and encourage him by making trade agreements with him even more recently, such as AB countries like France.