Sources said the Muslim Brotherhood’s international organization has begun to intensify its efforts to prosecute officials of the Egyptian regime before international courts after recent demonstrations against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi during his visit to the United Nations.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the sources said the leaders of the organization are convinced that any political move would not succeed in getting international support, particularly now that the United States has shifted more behind Sisi.
They said the organization is contacting international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, to support legal action against the regime for the Rabaa and al-Nahda sit-in dispersal, adding that the group will issue a joint report with those organizations about that incident.
Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth reportedly told Qatari news channel Al Jazeera on Sunday that he will form a fact-finding committee to conduct an international investigation into the dispersal if the Egyptian committee fails to investigate the main suspects, noting that the committee would be formed in agreement with the United Nations Council for Human Rights, similar to what it did on Syria.
Ahmed Ban, a researcher in the affairs of political Islam, said legal action has become the only solution for the group after being exposed politically and removed from the scene.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
