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| Egyptian policemen use a water canon to disperse protesters during a demonstration in front of the Shura council |
Abdel Halem Qandil, editor-in-chief of Sawt Al-Umma newspaper, called for the release of all detainees on Al-Youm channel, adding that President Adly Mansour should halt the protest law pending amendment or abolition.
“The police only implemented a law. The law is wrong, not the police,” he said.
On Dream2 channel, former Member of Parliament Abu al-Ezz al-Hariri said President Mansour should dismiss the government “because it cannot run the country.”
Hariri added that the dispersal of the protesters outside the Shura Council was “unnecessary. “
“The government did not take such a decisive step against the Muslim Brotherhood as the state of emergency was active despite their ‘terrorism,’” he said.
“A protest law can be implemented in a stable country, and not in a country with an ongoing uprising,” Khaled Youssef, one of the members of the 50-member committee amending the constitution, told ON TV.
The protest law will not stop the Brotherhood’s protests, but will rather divide the factions that took to streets on June 30, he added.
“What happened outside the Shura Council is a scandal. You cannot order the families of protesters who were killed not to demand justice. There must be a mechanism for transitional justice before you set a protest law,” Youssef continued.
Youssef also called President Mansour to halt the protest law.
On Al-Arabiya channel, undersecretary of April 6 Democratic Front said the Penal Code suffices because the protest law provoked political movements.
“To many, the protest law is a prelude to the return of the repressive police state,” he said.
Also on Al-Arabiya, member of the political bureau of Tamarod Mohamed Nabawi said the timing of the issuance of the protest law was wrong.
Tamarod movement would ignore the protest law if it decided to take to streets, according to Hassan Shahin, member of the political bureau of the movement.
“We will continue with the pressure to abolish that law and dismiss the government,” Shahin told Youm7 Tuesday.
Khaled al-Sayed, member of the political bureau of the Revolutionaries Front told Youm7 protests will continue until the protest law is abolished.
“No one will continue in power in Egypt if they will not realize demands of the revolution,” he said.
Labor activist Mohamed Abdeen told Youm7 the Penal Code would be enough in the case that protesters sabotage public facilities.
“The protest law will only weaken the bond created after June 30 between revolutionary forces and the regime, which will benefit no one but the Muslim Brotherhood,” said Abdeen, adding that the law includes unacceptable articles that truly restrict freedoms.
