Wasat Party deputy head Essam Sultan has announced that he is petitioning the Swedish Academy to withdraw the Nobel Peace Prize from Dostour Party chief Mohamed ElBaradei.
Sultan issued a Facebook statement Saturday saying, “Following discussions with several legal experts, we decided to submitting popular memorandum for the Nobel Prizes administration in Sweden to send a delegation [to review the] Moqattam incidents which took place on Friday, and to be informed about the violence that was managed from the Dostour Party’s headquarters, run by ElBaradei.”
Sultan’s request is noteworthy because it is actually the Norweigen Nobel Institute, not the Swedish Academy, that decides the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Sultan added that ElBaradei used the prize “as a moral obstacle” to hinder investigations into the violence, saying that the memorandum would be reviewed by the public once it is written in order to collect signatures.
