We the undersigned Egyptians living around the world, strongly condemn the imprisonment of blogger and activist Alaa Abdelfattah, and the accusations leveled against martyr Mina Daniel for the events of 9 October, now known as the Maspiro events. On 9 October, military forces met peaceful protestors with deadly clashes that resulted in the death of 28 protestors who fell victim to military bullets or were crushed under the wheels of military vehicles. Hundreds more were injured. In order to ensure justice for the victims could be fought for, the cause of death had to be documented. Thousands of protestors have fallen victim to military and police violence since the beginning of the revolution, and with little medical documentation indicating their cause of death; their perpetrators are yet to be tried. This time, activists guarded the bodies of victims in the morgue to ensure that autopsies were performed on most of them before they were buried. As a result of public pressure, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) ordered the ministerial cabinet to form a fact-finding committee. And while its remit remains unclear, the military prosecution proceeded to conduct its own criminal investigation into events and produced a list of suspects. Mina Daniel, an activist who was shot to death on 9 October was named as the first suspect on that list. Prominent activists Alaa Abdelfattah and Bahaa Saber were summoned for interrogation at the Military Prosecutor’s office on 30 October and found that charges were leveled against them as well. Abdelfattah and Saber refused to answer questions on the basis that the interrogators belonged to a body that was itself implicated in the crime. Saber was released on bail, and Abdelfattah was detained for fifteen days pending investigations. The charges they are facing are inciting violence, vandalism, and stealing military weapons. We believe that allowing the investigations to be headed by the Military Prosecutor when the military was itself involved in the events under investigation is a mockery of justice. The prosecution is inherently biased; we believe investigations should be undertaken by a fully independent and impartial judicial party. This case is the latest in SCAF’s increasing efforts to crush the revolution since January 2011, which included the targeting of journalists, media figures, bloggers, activists and politicians with smear campaigns, violence and arrests. To date at least 12,000 Egyptian civilians have been subjected to covert military trials. Military courts are fundamentally unfair; the accused are often denied counsel, the opportunity to review evidence or examine witnesses; there have limited avenues of appeal. Eighteen death sentences have been handed down so far. We the undersigned support the following demands – An end to military trials of civilians and the retrial of those convicted before their civilian judge; In addition to the Maspiro events, independent and impartial investigations into other events that have resulted in the death and disappearance of civilians, such as the attacks on peaceful demonstrators on 9 April in Tahrir Square, on 23 July in Abbaseyya and on 9 September in front of the Israeli Embassy; Conducting fair trials before civilian courts for all those accused of crimes, following independent and impartial investigations, in relation to the aforementioned events; The immediate release of blogger and activist Alaa Abdelfattah and the 28 others detainees implicated in the Maspiro events; The immediate lifting of the state of emergency in place in Egypt since 1981. As Egyptians, we aspire for freedom, justice and dignity for our country. Millions of Egyptians have been willing to risk their lives for these ideals. Thousands have been killed or injured. We will not stand by and watch our martyrs accused of the very crimes that killed them, and our activists convicted one by one on little basis and without a fair trial. With all the sacrifices that have been and are still being made for this revolution, such injustice can no longer be tolerated.