No, I don't think they are trying to walk away from their responsibilities, but I don't think it's their priority right now.
The priority right now is, I think, to establish a sound political system and economy. The sorts of pressing human rights issues are ones that I think they are willing to postpone, and that is a matter of concern for me. I do take Morsi's commitment to at least [Technical Difficulty—Editor] very seriously, but I do worry that the longer he stays in power and the more his opposition background fades the less this will seem like a priority to him. So matters, for instance, of accountability for past human rights abuses have basically not been raised. That's a clear political judgment on the part of the country's senior leadership, the president and those around him, that they cannot tackle this issue right now, because there are too many other issues on the agenda.
Freedom of the press, for instance, is an area in which I think domestic criticism of Morsi is extremely strong. In my view some of that criticism is fair and some is unfair, but the fundamental underlying problem with freedom of the press and in other legal areas as well is that the authoritarian legal heritage that was so deeply entrenched in Egypt for decades is still on the books, still legally there. There almost has to be a comprehensive review of operative laws in all areas relevant to human rights. That simply has not started, and I don't see it being a priority.