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F INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY MAY 20, 2015 • THISDAY email: foreigndesk@thisdaylive.com Egypt’s Death Sentences Worry UN, Turkey United Nations and Turkey have expressed deep concern about the death sentences handed down in Egypt to former President Mohamed Mursi and other Islamists, while Turkey warned of Middle East turmoil if they are carried out. The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Kimoon, said he would closely monitor the appeals process for the death sentences and urged actions that would promote the rule of law. The U.S. State Department said Egypt’s practice of mass trials and sentences was unjust and often used against members of the opposition or non-violent activists. “We are deeply concerned by yet another mass death sentence handed down by an Egyptian court to more than 100 defendants, including former President Mursi,” State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke told reporters in Washington. An Egyptian court on Sunday sought the death penalty for Mursi and 106 supporters of his Muslim Brotherhood, in connection with a mass jailbreak in 2011. A final ruling is expected on June. In Ankara, Turkey’s presidential spokesman warned the Middle East would be thrown into turmoil if Egypt carried out its death sentences. Ibrahim Kalin said the sentences were a “breach of justice” and called on the international community to speak out more strongly against them. “The subject demands universal attention. The execution orders and carrying them out will push the Middle East into turmoil,” he told reporters. Turkey would work with the U.N. Human Rights Commission after the sentences, and take “all necessary steps”, he added. Turkish President, Tayyip Erdogan, is a supporter of Mursi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, and relations with Egypt have soured since the army forced Mursi from power in 2013. Diplomatic ties between the former regional allies were broken off after Erdogan repeatedly accused the new Egyptian government of carrying out a coup. Speaking to Egypt’s state news agency, an unidentified Egyptian official said Cairo was not surprised by Turkey’s comments. “The current regime in Turkey is a reflection of the ideas of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood,” the official added. The Turkish government’s backing for the Muslim US: Passengers Sue Amtrak over Philadelphia Derailment Four passengers on the Amtrak commuter train that derailed in Philadelphia last week have filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. rail service, as operations resumed on the heavily travelled Northeast Corridor. The lawsuit, filed in Philadelphia, cited “serious and disabling” injuries from the May 12 derailment that killed eight people and injured more than 200 others. Nearly a week after the derailment, it remains a mystery what caused the train to accelerate from 70 miles per hour (113 km per hour) to 106 mph (171 kph) in the minute before the crash. Authorities have not yet ruled out equipment malfunction, human error or other possible reasons for the train gaining speed so rapidly. A Federal Bureau of Investigation examination of a circular pattern of damage to the windshield of the derailed Amtrak train found no evidence it was caused by a firearm, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Monday. The NTSB, however, said it has not ruled out the possibility that another object may have struck the windshield. Train engineer Brian Bostian, 32, who suffered a concussion, told investigators he has no memory of what occurred after the train pulled out of the North Philadelphia station, just before the crash. The lawsuit appeared to be the first filed by a non-employee of the U.S. passenger rail service. Last week, an Amtrak worker who was riding the train as a passenger, filed the first lawsuit, citing a brain injury he said he suffered in the crash. The latest passengers’ lawsuit, seeking unspecified damages, accused Amtrak and Bostian of negligence and recklessness. Filing the suit were two Spanish citizens, Felicidad Redondo Iban and Maria Jesus Redondo Iban, as well as Daniel Armyn of New York and Amy Miller Brotherhood and Islamist groups across the Middle East has harmed Ankara’s relations with other regional partners, including Saudi Arabia and Libya, since the Arab Spring erupted four years ago. of New Jersey. Felicidad Redondo Iban has required several surgeries to avoid amputation of her right arm, according to the complaint. An Amtrak representative could not be reached immediately for comment. The train, headed from Washington to New York with 243 people on board, was traveling at twice the 50 mile-per-hour speed limit when it entered a sharp curve and derailed just north of Philadelphia. Amtrak commuter service, suspended since the derailment, resumed early on Monday on the Northeast Corridor, the nation’s busiest passenger rail line.
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