Judge Shereen Fahmy began questioning the 75 judges accused of having links to the Muslim Brotherhood, a report by state-owned Al-Ahram released on Monday read. The accusations had been raised by other members of the Judges Club, which is the de facto representative body of the judiciary. The judges, including former prosecutor general Talaat Abdullah, stand accused of bias in favour of the Brotherhood and undertaking political activity, the latter of which is forbidden, Lawyers' Syndicate Board member Mohamed Damaty said. Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad said he was not privy to any information regarding individual cases, but asked: "Is association with a democratically elected president a crime?" He added the matter was "testament to the limitless tyranny of a police state." The accusations of participation in political activity were levied after it was suggested that some members of the group had joined the pro-Morsi sit-ins at Rabaa Al-Adaweya, Al-Ahram reported. Their participation in the sit-ins was deemed by some to equate to practicing politics.
