Anti-Coup, Pro-Legitimacy National Alliance Statement On National and International Initiatives to End Egypt Crisis
Cairo: August 6, 2013
The Anti-Coup Pro-Legitimacy National Alliance expresses deep appreciation for the various national and international
calls urging for dialogue and efforts made to calm the tensions in Egypt.
We confirm the following:
• The first steps out of the crisis must address the core of the problem. The Egyptian people massing in sit-ins and
demonstrations all over Egypt did not come out because a number of leaders were arrested and others are being hunted.
The Egyptian people poured out into the streets and public squares to protest the military coup that overthrew
constitutional legitimacy, kidnapped the first elected civilian president in Egypt, suspended the Constitution approved
by public referendum only months ago, disbanded the elected parliament, blocked the democratic path on which Egypt
already took great strides (with positive participation of millions of Egyptians who cast their votes time and time
again in the most credible elections and referendums), established a military dictatorship aided by police repression
apparatus, restored the Mubarak regime with all its corruption and tyranny, and killed and injured thousands in several
horrendous massacres in the first weeks of the putschists’ rule.
• Truce endeavors must first restore constitutional legitimacy, starting with reinstatement of the elected president to
his rightful office (a demand made by the vast majority of Egyptians), activate the Constitution, and restore the
parliament. This is the core issue which is bound to calm tensions completely. Then, we can have a national dialogue on
all issues without any preconditions.
• The right of peaceful assembly, demonstrations and sit-ins is a constitutional and legal right approved by human
rights declarations, so long as they remain peaceful. Indeed, all our activities are peaceful. The proof is that the
demonstrators and protesters are the only victims of whom thousands fall dead and injured in vicious attacks by the
putschists and their hired thugs, all the time.
• Political prisoners must be released and all trumped-up charges brought against them dropped immediately in order to
lift the injustice, and must not be used in any way for bargaining.
• Freedom of opinion and expression is guaranteed in all international conventions and constitutions. The democratic
process necessitates that shuttered satellite TV channels are allowed to broadcast again, journalists banned from
writing are allowed to do their job, and restrictions on the media must be lifted.
Furthermore, putschists must put an end to the ferocious campaigns of misinformation, lies, slander and incitement to
hatred and sedition by their media henchmen who persistently call for the exclusion and extermination of opponents of
the coup – i.e. the majority of the Egyptian people.
• The Alliance rejects equalizing between the victims and the violent terrorists, between those who practice
persecution, terrorism and violence in its worst forms, grabbing power by force, kidnapping the legitimate President and
detaining him in an undisclosed location without due process, killing peaceful protesters – including women and children
– as they go down in prayer in repeated inhuman massacres, violating the sanctity of places of worship, laying siege to
worshipers in mosques, arbitrarily arresting politicians and fabricating false accusations against them, freezing
opposition leaders’ funds, and constantly threatening to attack peaceful sit-ins to break them up by force… and between
those who are killed, arrested, attacked and persecuted, despite our emphasis on the peacefulness of our approach and
our condemnation of all forms of violence, including those events that occur in the Sinai, and which everyone is now
certain are the handiwork of security forces and Fatah-affiliated Mohamed Dahlan’s men.
• The Alliance further calls for a fair, prompt and impartial investigation into all the massacres that have been
executed against pro-democracy peaceful protesters, and that those responsible are held accountable according to the
law.
Anti-Coup, Pro-Legitimacy National Alliance
Cairo: August 6, 2013
ENDS