Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood announced plans to take part in mass rallies on Friday calling for a "purge" of the Egyptian judiciary, local media reported.
The High Court in downtown Cairo is expected to be the main venue of Friday rallies, reported Ahram Online. The Brotherhood, along with a number of Islamist parties, are demonstrating to demand "purging state institutions of corrupt figures, recovery of Egypt's stolen funds, and holding to account those responsible for the killing of protesters," the website said.
"The Egyptian people made their great Revolution to achieve justice and to at last hold the corrupt accountable. If the judiciary cannot achieve justice, if the honorable judges fail to exact retribution on the criminals who killed our sons, assaulted our daughters and plundered our money and resources, evidently justice suffers a great imbalance," said Murad Ali, media adviser to the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) on Wednesday.
The detention of activists and the recent court ruling to release former president Hosni Mubarak without bail in the killing of protesters during the revolution case -- (Mubarak remains in detention under a separate case) -- is thought to have influenced a number of political parties to protest on Friday.
Islamist groups planning to take part in the demonstration according to Ahram Online include Hazem Salah Abu Ismail's Al-Raya Party, the Salafist Front Al-Asala Party, Al-Watan Party, Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya's Building and Development Party, the Reform Party and the People's Party.
The Salafist Al-Nour Party, considered to be the second largest Islamist group in the country after the Brotherhood, said it will not participate in Friday's rallies.
"We will not take part in the Friday demo for fear of ploys by the revolution's foes that aim to incite chaos, violence and vandalism," said Galal El-Morra, secretary-general of El-Nour Party, as quoted by Ahram Online.
El-Morra, however, stated that his party supports the demands the Brotherhood is calling for.
The April 6 Youth Movement, meanwhile, has shown no interest in participating in Friday's anti-judiciary protests.
The bloc, considered to be among the first youth movements who stood against Mubarak, said the protests are called for by a group that "jeopardizes the independence of judiciary and is using it to intimidate opponents," Ahram Online reported.
The National Salvation Front (NSF), Egypt's main opposition group, has also condemned the Brotherhood calls for anti-judiciary protests, saying the Islamist movement wants to "spread its influence throughout all branches of the state and undermine Egypt's 'respectable' judiciary," the website said.
19 Apr, 2013
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Source: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/04/19/Egypt-s-Islamist-parties-plan-anti-Judiciary-rallies-.html
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