Wasat Party Chairman Abul Ela Mady resigned on Saturday from the advisory council to the ruling Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) because the SCAF ignored the council's recommendations on the cabinet sit-in violence. The recently formed 35-member civilian advisory council set several demands, including an immediate halt to the violence and an apology from the SCAF to the people. During the funeral of Sheikh Emad Eddin Effat, secretary general of Dar al-Iftaa, who died on Friday after being shot as army and security forces clashed with protesters, Mady said that the SCAF has primary responsibility for the violence, which has left at least 9 dead and hundreds injured. Mady announced his resignation after military and security forces clashed with protesters again on Qasr al-Aini Street after the funeral. "We demanded that the military council immediately stop the use of violence against peaceful protesters, apologize for the aggression that took place against them, open an immediate investigation into all the officials responsible and announce the results within days, and compensate the families of the martyrs and wounded at the expense of the state," Mady told Al Jazeera Mubasher, adding that many advisory council members will resign if the SCAF continues to ignore the demands. Media reports said eight advisory council members, including Moataz Bellah Abdel Fattah and Ahmed Khairy, had already resigned in protest against the violence. Mansour Hassan, chairman of the advisory council, announced Friday that he would announce the names of the members who already resigned within 24 hours, as some resignations were not yet final. "If every one resigns in a crisis, who will solve these crises?" Hassan said. The advisory council's members have announced that they will suspend their meetings until the SCAF responds to their demands.
