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Egyptian officials could face London arrest over massacres, say lawyers

Senior officials in Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s regime in Egypt could face arrest for crimes against humanity if they take up a UK government invitation to visit London, human rights lawyers say.

The warning comes a day before the second anniversary of the massacre of more than 800 protesters outside Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, the worst of three mass killings of supporters of the ousted president Mohamed Morsi during the summer of 2013.

Last month David Cameron invited Sisi for bilateral talks in the UK, but Sisi has put off the visit due to fears that he or other members of his military regime could be detained if human rights lawyers sought arrest warrants from British courts on the basis of universal jurisdiction for mass crimes.

Toby Cadman, a war crimes lawyer, said he believed that was “almost certainly one of the reasons Sisi did not come” to Britain.

“We are pushing for accountability and pushing for prosecutions in the cases of a number of the individuals … and if they travel to the UK we’ll do our best to make sure they are arrested,” said Cadman, who is one of the lawyers pressing for prosecutions for the massacres. “If we had details of people’s travel we would take their files to the war crimes unit at the Met [Metropolitan police]. We would take their files and ask for their arrest.”

Cadman said he had reason to believe the Sisi regime had been concerned by thearrest in London in June of a Rwandan general, Karenzi Karake, on war crimes charges filed in Spain. 

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