Egyptian activists on Sunday launched a campaign on Twitter denouncing Farid al-Deeb, the top lawyer for former President Hosni Mubarak, in response to his claim that the 25 January revolution is a foreign plot against the country.
Al-Deeb’s remark came during Mubarak’s trial on Saturday.
“You are the reason for all bad things that have been happening to us until this moment,” tweeted Heba Emad addressing Mubarak. “May God not forgive you.”
“He brought us poverty, hunger, disease, unemployment and class differences,” tweeted Mohamed al-Domiaty.
Celebrities, such as media personality Hamdi Qandil, joined the campaign and agreed that Deeb should be sued.
Political activist Abdel Rahman Youssef quoted Deeb as saying in a television interview that Mubarak was the first to side with the January revolution and responded to the demands of the people. “Now he says it was a plot,” he tweeted. “Does this mean Mubarak sided with a plot against Egypt?”
Gamal Eid, director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, said Deeb has thereby violated the Constitution and must be punished for it because the Constitution states that 25 January was a great revolution.
Edited translation from Anadolu Agency
