It's Egypt's turn again. The country's former top auditor is slated for trial in a military court. Excerpt from
this EgyptianStreets account:
The former head of Egypt’s Central Auditing Organization (CAO) Hisham Geneina has been offered to a military trial on Thursday and will stand before the judges in the first trial on 16 April.
Besides being the former head of CAO, Geneina also was set to be the vice president of former presidential hopeful and ex-general Sami Anan.
Geneina was arrested in February after he had made press comments to the HuffPost Arabic. Geneina revealed in his press statements that Anan is in possession of documents against the military leaders and the current regime, further threatening that these documents will be released if Anan got assassinated during his imprisonment.
Human rights jurisprudence strongly disfavors the trial of civilians in military courts. Egypt is a persistent violator of this principle.
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