Perdana Menteri Mesir Hisham Qandil (Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil (AFP Photo/Khaled Desouki - think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
SitiWanMahani - Polis Mesir telah menahan bekas Perdana menteri di bawah bekas Presiden Mohamed Morsi. Hisham Qandil ditahan di padang pasir di luar Kaherah ketika cuba mela-rikan diri ke Sudan dengan penyeludup itu, Kementerian Dalam Negeri menyatakan.
Ketika di pejabat di bawah Islam Presiden Mohamed Morsi yang digulingkan, Qandil telah dijatuhi hukuman penjara 1 tahun kerana tidak mengikuti perintah mahkamah untuk renationalize syarikat selepas ia diswastakan pada tahun 1996.
Ayat tersebut dipelihara oleh mahkamah rayuan Kaherah pada bulan September. Selepas penggulingan Morsi itu oleh tentera pada bulan Julai, Qandil hidup sangat tenang. Selama musim panas, dia adalah seorang jurucakap persekutuan kumpulan-kumpulan pro-Morsi Islam dalam perbincangan dengan pengantara Eropah yang bekerja pada menurunkan ketegangan dengan kerajaan tentera-pasang.
Qandil bukan ahli Ikhwan Muslim atau mana-mana organisasi Islam lain. Rundingan gagal pada bulan Ogos apabila polis melancarkan tindakan keras ke atas penyokong pro-Morsi, yang mengorbankan lebih 1,000 orang dalam pertempuran dan beribu-ribu dipenjarakan, termasuk beberapa Islam atasan.
Kekerasan telah meningkat di Mesir sejak penggulingan Morsi, terutamanya sebagai tindak balas kepada taktik berat tangan ketenteraan terhadap pro-Morsi, penyokong Ikhwanul Muslimin. Pada hari Selasa, letupan (explosions) di ibu pejabat polis di Mansoura membunuh sekurang-kurangnya 14 orang dan mencederakan 130 yang lain, Kementerian Kesihatan Mesir dinyatakan.
Perdana Menteri Mesir Hazem Al Beblawi mengutuk serangan, memanggil mereka tinda-kan keganasan dan bersumpah untuk mendapatkan keadilan bagi pelaku. Liberal Parti Mesir Percuma menuduh Ikhwan Islam bertanggungjawab terhadap serangan itu.
Kerajaan Mesir yang disokong tentera telah mengejar tindakan keras terhadap Morsi dan para pemimpin Ikhwanul Muslimin.
Sejak itu, beberapa kes jenayah terhadap Morsi telah dilancarkan. Salah seorang daripada mereka menuduh beliau menghasut keganasan maut dalam Disember 2012 protes. Dia juga menghadapi perbicaraan jenayah ke atas episod pada Januari 2011, apabila beliau - bersama-sama dengan 129 orang lain - melarikan diri dari penjara.
Ramai pemain antarabangsa telah menyatakan kebimbangan ke atas tindakan keras Mesir pada pembangkang. Pada bulan November, ketua PBB Ban Ki-moon dikritik kesan undang-undang baru Mesir yang mengehadkan perhimpunan berikut tindakan keras , dan penangkapan puluhan aktivis pada mengukuran marah.
Berkuasa Mesir sebelum ini diserahkan hukuman penjara yang berat untuk sekumpulan 21 wanita muda penyokong Morsi dan memerintahkan penahanan 2 dozen aktivis sekular untuk menyertai demonstrasi pada hari Selasa.
Pada bulan September, mahkamah di Mesir mengharamkan semua aktiviti-aktiviti Ikhwan Muslim di negara ini. Aset Ikhwan juga akan dirampas, menurut pemerintah. Juga pada bulan September, pasukan keselamatan Mesir menyerbu sebuah kubu kuat Islam di Kampung Kerdasa, yang terletak di luar Kaherah, menahan 65 orang.
Egypt arrests Morsi's former PM
Egyptian police have arrested the former prime minister under ex-President Mohamed Morsi. Hisham Qandil was arrested in the desert outside of Cairo while trying to escape to Sudan with a smuggler, the Interior Ministry stated.
While in office under deposed Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, Qandil was sentenced to a one-year prison term for not following court orders to renationalize a company after it was privatized in 1996.
The sentence was upheld by the Cairo appeals court in September. After Morsi’s overthrow by the military in July, Qandil lived a very quiet life. Over the summer, he was a spokesman for an alliance of pro-Morsi Islamist groups during talks with European mediators who worked on lowering tensions with the military-installed government.
Qandil is not a member of the Muslim Brotherhood or any other Islamist organization. Negotiations failed in August when police launched a crackdown on pro-Morsi supporters, which killed more than 1,000 people in clashes and imprisoned thousands, including some top Islamists.
Violence has increased in Egypt since Morsi’s overthrow, especially in response to heavy-handed military tactics against pro-Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood supporters. On Tuesday,explosions at a police headquarters in Mansoura killed at least 14 people and injured 130 others, Egypt's health ministry stated.
Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem Al Beblawi condemned the attacks, calling them an act of terrorism and vowing to seek justice for the perpetrators. The liberal Free Egyptians Party accused the Muslim Brotherhood of being responsible for the attack.
The Egyptian military-backed government has been pursuing a crackdown against Morsi and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders.
Since then, several criminal cases against Morsi have been launched. One of them accuses him of inciting deadly violence during the December 2012 protests. He is also facing a criminal trial over an episode in January 2011, when he - along with 129 others - escaped from a prison.
Many international players have expressed concern over Egypt’s crackdown on the opposition. In November, UN chief Ban Ki-moon criticized the impact of Egypt’s new law which restricts assemblies following a crackdown, and the arrests of dozens of activists angry at the measure.
Egyptian authorities earlier handed out heavy prison sentences to a group of 21 young female Morsi supporters and ordered the detention of two dozen secular activists for participating in Tuesday’s demonstrations.
In September, a court in Egypt banned all activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in the country. The Brotherhood’s assets will also be confiscated, according to the ruling. Also in September, Egyptian security forces stormed an Islamist stronghold in the village of Kerdasa, located outside Cairo, arresting 65 people.
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