Peace and Justice Post

Amnesty International announced today that it has written to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, urging him to ensure that independent observers are permitted access to the trial of 40 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, scheduled to resume before the Supreme Military Court in Cairo on Sunday.

The organization made this call following two earlier trial hearings when legal observers sent by Amnesty International and other human rights organizations were barred from entering the court.

“We look to President Mubarak, as Egypt’s highest authority, to open the doors to this important trial,” said Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan. “He should clear the way for it to receive the scrutiny it deserves.”

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