Trial of Mohammed Soltan continues
As the UN reviews Egypt's Human Rights in Geneva, a non-public court in Cairo is holding a session on Mohammed Soltan, an Amerian-Egyptian arrested in August 2013.
Sultan, who slipped into a coma last week after spending 281 days on hunger strike, was arrested after taking part in a pro-Brotherhood demonstration at which hundreds of civilians were killed by the Egyptian army.
Soltan is charged, along with 51 other defendants with “forming an operations room to direct the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group to defy the government during the Rabaa sit-in dispersal and to spread chaos in the country.”
Amnesty International warned in early October that Soltan’s health had deteriorated dramatically and that he has been passing out and bleeding from the mouth and nose.
American-Egyptian journalist Mohammed Soltan has slipped into a sugar coma after spending 281 days on hunger strike.
Sara Mohamed, a spokesperson for the Soltan family, said on Sunday that fellow prisoners had witnessed the activist being transferred to intensive care.
Soltan is charged, along with 51 other defendants with “forming an operations room to direct the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group to defy the government during the Rabaa sit-in dispersal and to spread chaos in the country.”
He was arrested in August 2013 after taking part in a sit-in at Rabaa al-Adawiya, at which hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters were killed by the Egyptian army.
Amnesty International had warned in early October that Soltan’s health had deteriorated dramatically and that he has been passing out and bleeding from the mouth and nose.
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