Authorities accuse judges of intervening in politics’ and supporting the party of Mohamed Morsi,who was replaced in a coup in 2013Egypt’s Supreme Judicial Council has forced 32 judges into retirement for having opposed the army’s removal of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
Morsi was deposed by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who went on to become president, and since then the authorities bear cracked down on all forms of dissent,including secularists and liberals.
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Source: theguardian.com