Especially the most harsh verdicts where the mass Death Penalty verdict which has been landed on almost 1500, which is a Record Number, a world Record Number that gets egypt in to the Guinness Record book. You cannot reason up with all of these politicized politicized let me put it that way politicized verdicts and sentences. It has nothing do to do in my estimation with the law, at least with the procedures that the law had. So its incompatible with any reason. In november 2014 as i am sure you will recall, a court dropped the charges against Hosni Mubarak meanwhile we are looking now, you know, at picks here, of egypts first democratically elected civilian president being sentenced. When you put those contrasting images side by side, what does it say about the hopes for civilian rule in egypt . It tells a lot of things, but the most telling thing in this drama if we if we venture to call it drama for me its more than a drama its tragic, it tells that the regime, mubarak regime have n
Now egypts former president Mohamed Morsi has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Morsi was egypts first democratically elected president and toppled in a military coup in 2013. His sentence relates to the deaths of demonstrators in 2012 and acquitted of inciting murder but instead was convicted of ordering the arrest and torture of protesters. 12 Muslim Brotherhood members also got 20 years. And we go to the university in new york and in the studio and good to have you with us, looking at what happened what do you expect the reverberations to be to the sentence . Nobody can predict the kind of reaction about that verdict. Of course i believe that the supporters of president , former president morsi and the sympathizers and members of the brotherhood, they are not very happy with this verdict, although im sure that they expected even worse verdict. Do you think people in general see justice as being done or justice being preverted . In light of resent developments i guess the people
Thailands biggest ivory bust. Well have details on the seizure of Elephant Tusks in bang kong. More than 400 Asylum Seekers have been rescued off of the coast of italy. The group was found by a fishing boat. The ship they were on was taking on water. Its just the latest incident in what has become an almost daily occurrence between Northern Africa and southern europe. In the last week alone more than 10,000 people have been rescued in the seas. Hundreds more have drowned. Ing on sunday a ship carrying more than 800 people sank off of the libyan coast. Its one of the worst disasters in the mediterranean sea. Then on monday a ship carrying migrants smashed off of the greek island of rhodes. The italian and maltese guards scrambled to respond to distress calls from a ship from libya. Reporter given how difficult the crisis has become the sight of young Italian Women showering refugee ships are flowers is a display of basic humanity that is more than a little moving. This claimed 700 lives
Out in the city of light. In yemen despite airstrikes, Houthi Rebels appear to be making gains in aden. The coalition is shelling target the from the sea. The eastern port town has been briefly overrun by forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. The Saudiled Coalition jets bombed sanna for the 11th day. Houthi rebels reported to be advancing in aden, one of the main strongholds of the countries embattled president adou Rabbo Mansour hadi. Theres been fighting in the southern province. We have the latest. The Saudiled Coalition unleashed an 11th night of airstrikes lighting up the sky of sanna the targets including a military base and locations controlled by Houthi Rebels and fighters loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. This village near sanna was also affected. Four rockets came down on our village and they said they were targeting a militia camp. Where is the camp . Is this a camp . These are sleeping muslims. Overnight, Houthi Rebels ransacked the homes of sever
New art exhibit in london has art facts from one of the worlds oldest cultures. Cairo Court Sentenced deposed egyptian president Mohamed Morsi to 20 years in prison and 12 others also got a 20year sentence and he was egypt had a coup against street protest against it and charges against protesters during demonstrations outside the president ial palace in december 2012. He faces three other cases including one linked to his escape from prison in 2011. He was being held in custody after a round up of Muslim Brotherhood supporters and facing charges of spying and conspiring to commit terrorists acts in egypt with Palestinian Movement hamas and allegations he endangered egypts National Security by leaking state secrets to qatar and fraud in connection with Muslim Brotherhood with economic and social program for recovery and accused of insulting the judiciary after allegedly accusing a judge of over seeing fraud in previous elections. And we have an egyptian journalist who joins us in the s