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Brotherhood leader backtracks on giving Rabaa testimony
Leading Muslim Brother Mohamed Ali Bishr cites bias as reason behind not testifying on Rabaa dispersal
Ahram Online Published in Ahram Online on 14 - 09 - 2014

Mohamed Ali Bishr, a leading Muslim Brotherhood member, backtracked on a previous announcement to testify on Monday in front of a fact-finding committee assigned to investigate the August 2013 dispersal of the Rabaa protest camp.
Egyptian news website Aswat Masriya – established by Reuters – reported that Bishr said in a statement that the neutrality of the committee had been compromised when his intention to testify was used for political ends, without elaborating further.
In a statement issued Thursday afternoon the committee stated that Bishr told committee head Fouad Riyad – who also led the International Criminal Tribunal in the former Yugoslovia – that he was ready to testify alongside other Brotherhood members after an initial rejection to testify a couple of weeks ago.
Bishr then accused Riyad in the new statement of speaking publicly of his political positions, saying the "politicisation" of the testimony is to the detriment of informing the public about the truth of the events.
Prior to his retraction, Bishr had told Riyad that he asked the wife and son of Mohamed El-Beltagy, a leading Brotherhood figure and former MP, to testify.
El-Beltagy's daughter Asmaa El-Beltagy was killed in the Rabaa dispersal and became an icon among pro-Mohamed Morsi supporters both locally and internationally. El-Beltagy himself is currently in jail, serving two life sentences.
According to the fact-finding committee's Thursday statement, Bishr also called on other Brotherhood members such as lawyer Hoda Abdel-Moneim and Hanan Amin to testify as eye witnesses to the dispersal.
Bishr was among the Brotherhood team that held talks with the EU delegation that travelled to Cairo following Morsi's ouster in July 2013.
The Brotherhood was designated as a terrorist organisation last December.
Riyad announced earlier that the committee was ready to send a delegation to listen to the testimonies of Brotherhood members abroad if they approved to testify.
He also called on international human rights organisations like Human Rights Watch to present their findings on the dispersal.
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