"The meteor":President’s statement "Representatives" Historical.. setting the rules of dialogue under the dome "The Council" To make legislation a participatory product
The Democratic Generation Party welcomed in a statement issued on Friday evening the statement issued by Counselor Hanfy El-Gebali, Speaker of the House of Representatives, regarding the new draft Criminal Procedures Law, describing the statement as written in high legal language and eloquent Arabic words, stressing that the law is an important step in modernizing the legal system in Egypt, and aims to achieve a qualitative shift in the philosophy of criminal procedures, noting that it grants the Public Prosecution broader powers in initiating criminal lawsuits, so it has become the original authority to investigate, initiate and conduct criminal lawsuits in implementation of the provisions of Article 189 of the Constitution, and it also includes a set of guarantees that enhance human rights, including reducing the period of pretrial detention, restricting the powers of judicial police officers in arrest and search, and setting controls to compensate defendants for wrongful pretrial detention."RTL">
The project also includes an integrated organization to protect witnesses, informants, accused persons and victims, and to provide facilities for people with disabilities during the investigation and trial stages, in addition to organizing the gradual transition to digital advertising, investigation and remote trial."RTL">
"Al-Jeel added in his statement" that the Speaker of the House of Representatives was keen to emphasize that the draft law is the result of two years of continuous work in the subcommittee emanating from the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee, in order to ensure the drafting of a law that reflects the spirit of the Egyptian constitution and meets the needs of society.""RTL">
For his part, Naji Al-Shehabi, head of the Generation Party, welcomed the Speaker of the House of Representatives’ confirmation that the legislation is the result of collective, collaborative work, the primary goal of which is to establish a fair judicial system that protects the rights of individuals and safeguards the stability of society, praising the spirit with which the Legislative and Constitutional Committee discussed the amendments submitted, whether by members of the committee or representatives of the government or the Supreme Judicial Council or the Public Prosecution or the Bar Association, as well as some demands of journalists; appreciating what the Speaker of the House of Representatives confirmed in his statement that the committee saw that all of these amendments came to regulate the provisions of the draft law, which is the pillar of judicial organization in the criminal section.
"Al-Shahabi" also praised the confirmation by the Speaker of the House of Representatives that the Legislative and Constitutional Committee would study the recommendations of the Human Rights and Public Liberties Committee in the National Dialogue regarding pretrial detention and criminal justice, which are the recommendations that the President of the Republic demanded immediate implementation of, noting that Parliament has already incorporated a number of these recommendations into the new draft Criminal Procedures Law, including: reducing the periods of pretrial detention and setting a maximum limit for them; so that the period of pretrial detention does not exceed four months in misdemeanors (instead of six), twelve months in felonies (instead of eighteen), and eighteen months in cases related to life imprisonment or the death penalty (instead of two years)."RTL"The period of detention of defendants in the Court of Cassation was also set at no more than two years, after it was not specified in the existing law. The recommendation of the National Dialogue was also incorporated to allow appeals against pretrial detention decisions through electronic means, as the draft law included comprehensive formulations for appeals against all orders, including pretrial detention orders through traditional means.
And also adopting the recommendation to cancel Law No. (83) of 2013 regarding amending some provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code, which granted the Court of Cassation and the referral court, if the verdict was issued with the death penalty or life imprisonment, to order the accused to be detained in custody for a period of forty-five days, renewable without being bound by a specific period, as Article (124) of the draft law included restricting the authority of the Court of Cassation in this regard in the manner previously stated, so that its maximum limit would not exceed two years."RTL">
"Al-Shahabi" described the statement of the Speaker of the House of Representatives as historic, stressing that he set the rules and foundations for dialogue and discussion under the dome of the House of Representatives to make legislation the result of participatory work, through the wise and distinguished management of the Legislative and Constitutional Committee, which was open-minded to listen to the views of the Bar Association, the Journalists Syndicate and the Judicial Club, and in its decisions, it upheld the constitution and the right of the accused to have a lawyer who enjoys all the guarantees that enable him to carry out his defensive duty towards his client, and also upheld private property as it enjoys constitutional protection and has been ruled by successive rulings of the Supreme Constitutional Court, and rejected amendments submitted by the government and the Public Prosecution."RTL">
