'Egypt will not pardon any Muslim Brother, guilty of violence or not'

Cairo - Mohamed Abdul Aziz, a member of the Committee of Egyptian presidential pardon for prisoners in protest-related cases, denied the rumours about the release of youth members who may be affiliated or associated to Muslim Brotherhood group.
In a televised statement on Monday, Abdul Aziz  said that “the terror attack on the St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo where a terrorist blew himself up inside a congregation of worshippers in December 2016” makes us more firmer on our stance that no Muslim Brotherhood member will be released from prison whether or not their involvement in violence has been proven.

He pointed out that: “Any member from the brotherhood is prone to resort to violence at a certain point as this mechanism is part of their ideology and what they stand for. [And] We will never accept to be the cause of any possible terrorist attack that might happen, God forbids.”
Abdul Aziz continued: “Muslim Brotherhood is designated as a terror group according to the law, and its actions have come to prove that.”

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has repeatedly expressed awareness of the presence of wrongfully imprisoned people and promised to work on their release. Article 155 of the Egyptian constitution gives the president the right to issue pardons for those handed final jail terms after consulting the cabinet.
 
In November last year, Sisi pardoned 82 prisoners, mostly university students.

Al-Sisi issued on Monday a decree to pardon 203 jailed young people, state-run MENA news agency reported.  Al-Sisi’s move came in response to last year's national youth conference where he ordered formation of a youth committee to study the cases of youth prisoners in various controversial cases mostly related to protests and liberal opinions.