SIS Denounces HRW’s Unprofessional Conduct in Supporting Terrorism

The State Information Service SIS has strongly condemned Human Rights Watch HRW's unprofessional conduct and deplores its overt support of terrorism.

 

SIS calls upon international public opinion to pay serious attention to how HRW deviated from its core functions as a human rights organization and to see how it transformed itself into a political actor or rather a political tool that terrorist entities and their state sponsors use in their futile quest to compromise Egypt's unity and stability.

 

These remarks came after the appearance of Sarah Leah Whitson the director of HRW’s Middle East and North Africa pision on televised program with Mohamed Nasser on “Mekamleen” a pro Muslim Brotherhood MB (A terrorist group) television station that broadcasts from Turkey.

 

This left no doubt about HRW’s absolute lack of the most basic standards of professionalism and objectivity in its coverage of the situation in Egypt.

 

According to statement posted by SIS on its Human Rights website) http://hrstudies.sis.gov.eg/),Whitson’s interview on “Mekamleen” revealed HRW’s obvious bias to an entity classified in Egypt and a number of nations around the world as a terrorist group, and this in turn proves that HRW is in overt collusion with some terrorist groups.

 

There are clear indicators that attest to the extent of the terroristic incendiary role of Mekamleen among them:

• Mekamleen is considered as a propaganda platform of the Muslim Brotherhood, as its establishment coincided with the fall of the Brotherhood from power in Egypt in Mid-2013.

 

• The TV channel’s main function appears to be the intensive promotion of the agenda of the terrorist group which entails spreading rumors and false information about the Egyptian state and jeopardizing the country’s stability.

 

• It also carries out campaigns of incitement against Arab governments through hosting elements of the Brotherhood on their programs on a regular basis.

 

 

• Mekamleen never disclosed the source from which it acquires funding of its inflammatory activities which in turn raises suspicions that its actually funded by secret accounts belonging to the Brotherhood. This is supported by the fact that Mekamleen never faced any financial difficulties.

 

• Mohamed Nasser is notorious for his hostile propaganda against the Egyptian state; that in addition to the fact that Nasser is wanted by the authorities on account of his implication in the “vanguards of Hasm” terrorism case in which he was convicted by the judiciary and sentenced to 8 years in prison on account of charges that include “attempting to overthrow the government”, “incitement to kill police officers” and spreading false rumors.

 

• Nasser is known to have openly committed the offense of incitement to murder on more than once occasion. For example in one of his episodes on Mekamleen that was aired in January 2015 Nasser said, “Kill his officers, I want to tell the wide of every officer that your husband will get killed, if not today then tomorrow, your husband will get murdered” then he later added, “If you see an officer kill him and get it done” “The police will not be able to continue, kill them” “I am telling every officer’s wife and son, your husband will die, your children will be orphans”

 

In light of this HRW’s total bias to the MB terrorist group is proven beyond any doubt. This proof is supported by HRW’s systematic smear campaign on the human rights situation in Egypt that started with biased and false statements and reports that were strongly rebutted by the Human Rights Unit of the SIS and proceeds now to new level with Mrs. Whitson’s appearance on a terrorist media platform like Mekamleen.