These excerpts below reminds of when the Hastmans had their first court experience in Dec 2012. Rumour has it, at that court proceeding, the judge WOULD NOT entertain any of the Hastmans defence, thus rendering the decision made by the judge, a biased decision. Furthermore, the appointed judge, was not qualified to make a decision in this matter, he was supposedly an insurance judge of some sorts and may have not been experienced whatsoever in securities law/s.

I find this very disturbing what is happening in Egypt and my heart goes out to these people. What kind of a world are we exactly living in? We think that Canada is a great country to live in, but as we witness more and more on our doorstep, are we really any different? The huge Montreal Protest a few weeks back, with said participants of ~60,000 people, rarely, if at all, made the mainstream media. Wake up......

"Human rights groups and Western governments condemned both trials, hasty affairs in which the defendants’ lawyers say they were not allowed to present their cases."

"“I think it is a political verdict and this is the worrying thing that any judge can rule whatever he feels like without any regard for the law," Khalil said. " Is it a sentence organized by or instigated by the regime? I really do not know. The current legal system is working in such an erratic manner it is really hard to assess what in God’s sake they are doing.”

http://www.voanews.com/content/egypt-sentences-683-to-death/1902469.html