MPs Slam European Parliament's Resolution on Egypt

Members of the House of Parliament rejected Saturday a draft resolution released by the European Parliament on the human rights situation in Egypt.

“The European Parliament has used to made international impressions without practical and field study,” said MP Tarek Radwan.

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In a press statement, Radwan said that the European Parliament used to criticize most of the time, adding that its members selected specific cases and ignored Egypt's right to maintain peace and internal national security.

"The European Parliament should have been more positive by interacting on the ground and responding to many invitations from the Egyptian Parliament to visit Egypt to discuss and find out the truth,” he noted.

Radwan manifested that the European Parliament’s members paid only one visit to Egypt in 2017 just for one day, “Thus, the visit was short, and they could not verify what’s really taking place in Egypt then.”

He stressed that if the European Parliament is interested in giving solid and neutral opinions, its members should have repeated the visit, meet with concerned people and officials and pay a visit to the parliament including its two houses.

Radwan affirmed the Egyptian state’s keenness to establish a modern, democratic and civil state, which includes upholding the rule of law and the concept of citizenship, as well as exerting utmost efforts to achieve balance and preserve rights and freedoms on one hand and preserving security and stability on the other hand.

The EP issued a resolution number RC-B9-0426/2020 Wednesday on what claimed to address “the deteriorating situation of human rights in Egypt, in particular the case of the activists of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR)."

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The resolution criticized the human rights satiation in Egypt and claimed that the authorities “intensify their crackdown on civil society, human rights defenders, health workers, journalists, opposition members, academics and lawyers.”

House of Parliament Member Tarek El Khouly said on Saturday that as the European Parliament’s opinions are not binding on the member states, it becomes clear that this body is just trying to attract attention.

“I advise you (the European Parliament) to look for human rights situations in your member states’ parliaments,” he added.