Protests against Sisi visit London
Activists seek an investigation and arrest the leaders who were responsible for what they call the worst human rights violations in Egypt.
Egyptian opposition groups and human rights activists have asked the investigation and arrest of Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi and members of his entourage. They condemn welcomed by the British government organized a leader they blame for the worst human rights crisis in the history of Egypt.
Hundreds of demonstrators, including many Egyptian exiles, gathered Wednesday evening in front of the residence of the British Prime Minister, where he now planned a meeting with David Cameron Egyptian President Sisi within the three-day visit the UK.
The protesters expressed their opposition to the visit, carrying banners saying "Stop the butcher Sisi" and "killer Sisi was not welcome in the UK".
Many wore T-shirts or prominent flag with the symbol R4BIA, protests bloodily suppressed in August 2013.
Human Rights Watch has said that he "killed most of demonstrators in a day in recent history."
The calculation of the Muslim Brotherhood
"Mursi's democracy, Sisi is hypocrisy," chanted the demonstrators, referring to Mohammed Murcia, democratically elected president who was overthrown by Sisi in a military coup in July 2013.
"We came here to say 'shame on you, Cameron." Not in the name of the British, even in the name of the Egyptian people will not accept the bloody hands of dictators who came to Britain to gain legitimacy, "said Maha Azzam assembled, the head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council.
"If General Sisi now thinks he has diplomatic immunity, allow me to remind him that he will not be able to escape justice. Justice is waiting for him. The Egyptians today deserve to be respectful of their rights and freedoms."
Sisi found himself criticized by international groups for the protection of human rights because of the clash with supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, which his government considers a terrorist organization, as well as other opposition groups whose members have been killed in the protests, captured and sentenced to death during his reign.
Back totalitarianism
"Egypt is going through the worst crisis of human rights in recent decades," he told Al Jazeera David Mepham, Director of Human Rights Watch in the UK.
"Far from moving towards democracy. What we have seen is a savage lynching of his opponents and enemies, the denial of fundamental rights and freedoms, as well as the restoration of a totalitarian state against which people are protesting in Tahrir Square in 2011," he added.
Cameron was the first Western leader to visit Tahrir Square after the revolution of 2011, which ended the decades-long rule of Egypt's military leader Hosni Mubarak.
Then he said he went there to "support the aspirations of the Egyptian people for a true, open democracy."
- 5 Nov, 2015
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