Egypt's public prosecutor has ordered the arrests of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and eight senior officials in a probe over inciting violence, MENA state news agency reported. Badie was accused of calling for violence at Giza’s Nahda Square and the Republican Guard Headquarters in early July, at the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in late June, and at the Ittihadiya presidential palace in December of 2012. He was previously detained for questioning, but was released at least once since the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi on July 3. Morsi is being investigated for spying, inciting the killings of protesters, and damaging the economy. Media agencies
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
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