Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Egypt's military courts

Human Rights Watch reports here that since October 2014, Egypt's military courts have tried 7,420 civilians. Prevailing international norms forbid the trial of civilians in military courts. Egypt is almost certainly the world's leading violator of that human rights principle.

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