Asked to investigate the detention for 80t
Asked to investigate the detention for 80 days by members of Muslim sect.
Cairo, June 8 .- An Egyptian human rights organization now claim an investigation identify responsibilities for the detention for more than 80 days from nine followers of a Muslim sect accused of contempt for Islam.
In a statement, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights welcome the decision of the Supreme Prosecutor State Security ordered the release of nine citizens, in prison since last, gods and heroes gold, March 15 for belonging to the sect Ahmadiyah, considered heretical in Islam.
Created in 1889 by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in India, the Ahmadiyah sect different from other Muslim currents considering its founder as the "last prophet", a title that Islam Muhammad gives only what is branded as heresy.
The nine members of the, tera gold, sect were arrested in five governorates in Egypt, including Cairo, and books and computers were confiscated, according to the Egyptian.
The faithful remained six weeks without being brought before any judicial institution, without which they impute no charge until the end of April they took before the Supreme Prosecutor State Security, which they accused of showing contempt for Islam, collected crime, buy aion kinah, in Article 98 of the Egyptian Penal Code.
In addition, dndants have alleged that police tortured them to recognize the charges against them.
The deputy director of the organization Sohi Abdelati critical that Article 98 is "used by state security against several religious communities such as Shia, or Koranic Baha'is, who are tortured to give up their beliefs."
In the statement, the NGO claims that the Attorney General to remove the indictment against the nine members of the sect and calls for independent investigation by the detention of citizens to practice their constitutional right to freedom of religion and belief.
The legal responsibility of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, Adel Ramadan, also urged the Egyptian Government to comply with international agreements and stress that "the retention of these people just for professing a different belief is arbitrary and therefore must be accountable those who did. "