Human rights lawyer Khaled Ali says he is quitting the race to become Egypt’s president, citing reasons that include the arrest of some of his election campaign activists and a tight timetable.
“Today, we announce our decision that we will not run in this race,” Ali says at a news conference in Cairo.
Ali, a leftist who was a presidential candidate in 2012, had yet to submit his candidacy for the March 26 – 28 election.
From the start, he said, “our announcement was met with an angry and irresponsible reaction, manifesting in the arrest of a large number of the campaign’s youth,” says Ali.
The arrests had started a few months “before we officially announced our intent to run… with some referred to urgent trials,” the rights lawyer adds.
The majority of those hoping to challenge incumbent President Abdel Fattah al-SisSi in the election have either ruled themselves out or been sentenced to prison in the past few weeks.
— AFP
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