The Shura Council has today announced the appointment of Judge Hussam al-Ghiryani as the head of the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights (NCHR). Ghiryani, who is known for his Islamist leanings, is the head of the Constituent Assembly that is currently drafting Egypt’s new constitution, and is also the head of the Court of Cassation
The Shura Council has today announced the appointment of Judge Hussam al-Ghiryani as the head of the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights (NCHR). Ghiryani, who is known for his Islamist leanings, is the head of the Constituent Assembly that is currently drafting Egypt’s new constitution, and is also the head of the Court of Cassation.
Many liberals and seculars are disgruntled over the appointment. The rights activist George Ishaq described the entire newly-appointed NCHR as a materialisation of the flagrant effort to “Ikhwanise (from Ikhwan Muslimoun, the Muslim Brotherhood) State posts”. Ishaq pointed out that all evidence confirms that the Freedom and Justice, the party to which President Mursi belongs and the political arm of the MB, interferes in all State affairs and imposes its own choices. He denounced the appointment of Islamists with well-known anti-human rights stances as members of the NCHR.
The leftist politician Rifaat al-Said confirmed to Watani the same viewpoint as Ishaq. “The appointment of Ghiryani as head of the NCHR,” he said, “is an obvious part of the ongoing efforts to Ikhwanise the State.”
Watani International
4 September 2012
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