Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  First of all, I think the army has control, has power over the whole country and all Egyptians, not only Copts. Regarding the second part of your question, whether Copts have sympathy from the rest of the people, I would say that there have been a number of attempts to divide Mus

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Canada, like several other countries that have a very respectable human rights record, is seen as such in the world, but doesn't necessarily have the political authority to impose an immediate economic change. However, Canada has the authority, the moral credibility so to speak,

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  On the first question, whether there have been changes in the way the police and the riot police operate, I think it's fair to say that there hasn't been genuine will, whether from the military council or certainly from the government, to drastically reform the tool of repression

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, it is definitely worrying to the Coptic community in Egypt, although I don't want to speak on behalf of that community. It's a large and diverse community that has many ways of putting forward their own cause and demands. Some of them would prefer to remain campaigning at th

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  To answer your first question, we agree with the fact that he is a Copt, although perhaps not practising, but I don't think that played into getting him arrested for what he said or wrote and then being tried militarily. Indeed, he is not the only prisoner of conscience. There

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's obviously a political analysis that I need to give that might not be an Amnesty comment as such, but there are very serious doubts about the military handing genuine power to a civilian-elected parliament or president. It is assumed among analysts in Egypt that the military

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  One of the recommendations that we think is important for Canada to pursue is the freedom of expression and association. We think this is one of the spheres that may be affected by military rule, but also by the mounting force of conservative views of Islam that would forbid some

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The Freedom and Justice Party is a political party that was established and is in a way the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood movement.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  They have not given us any feedback on the manifesto.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  There is a presidential candidate running in the election on behalf of the Freedom and Justice Party and he has a very decent chance of winning.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I have to say that we, as Amnesty, haven't been assessing the performance of the state TV all the way through, but I'm sure many Egyptian NGOs have been watching carefully the performance of state TV. They are calling for this body to be completely independent so that such incide

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think most parties I have met or have feedback from on the manifesto for change have accepted international law as an obligation that has to be fulfilled, whatever form of government comes next. One of the Islamic parties has put in question this whole framework of human righ

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's difficult to say, to be honest. In my view, the democratic processes that started after Mubarak left, in terms of opening the political system to include all political factions, have diminished the tension that existed between the different spectrum of political Islam and th

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm done.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We have the tendency to make comparisons between what happened...or the human rights record of Mubarak's 30 years of rule and after Mubarak left. In our public statements we have often compared the two periods. We either say it has been worse or it has been more of the same. We h