The government’s decision to refere Khairat Al Shater and other Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders to military court is "a flagrant violation of the rights of citizenship” said MB leader Dr. Essam Al-Erian.
Al Erian added in a statement to Ikhwanweb that ” Every Egyptian citizen has the right to appear before a civil not a military court and in front of an independent judiciary and has the right of lodging appeals and complaints in addition to all legal rights which a military court lacks.

Al-Erian added that "While the Egyptian regime is propagating for the constitutional amendments and is confirming that there is a political reform; this authoritarian regime is surprisingly and unjustly transferring this group of MB leaders to a military court"

Al Erian warned the decision might creat a state of instability and harms Egyptian interests inside and abroad.