GENEVA (30 November 2012) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has urged the President of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, to reconsider the Constitutional Declaration issued last week, saying a number of measures contained in it are incompatible with international human rights law. She further warned that approving a constitution in these circumstances could be a deeply divisive move.

The decision of Mr. President to reinstate the dissolved Parliament is an invalid decision, and he should be prosecuted for it. Moreover, he has committed another mistake when he claimed that Military Council had issued a mistaken administrative decision, In fact, it was an executive on.