The Minister of Justice and Communications launches a remote litigation system in criminal cases

In implementation of President Abdel Fattah El -Sisi’s directives to develop the judicial system, modernize its mechanisms, and pay attention to the technical and technological aspect of expanding the application of artificial intelligence technologies. Today, Tuesday, Counselor Adnan Fagri, Minister of Justice, and Dr. Amr Samih Talaat, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, launched the remote litigation system in the criminal cases of the East Alexandria Court, which includes the lawyer’s presence in distance in the sessions of the precautionary imprisonment so that the lawyer can provide his defense from the accused who is imprisoned in remote A dimension of his prison, in the presence of & nbsp; Lieutenant General Ahmed Khaled Hassan, Governor of Alexandria, and Counselor Zakaria Youssef Hassan Harzallah, President of the Alexandria Appeals Court, member of the Supreme Judicial Council, and Major General Dr. Ahmed Youssef Al -Sulaya, Assistant Minister of Interior for the Legal Affairs Sector, and a group of leaders of the ministries of justice, communications, information technology, interior and the Public Prosecution, and judicial bodies and bodies.

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This application aims to generalize and publish this mechanism at the level of the Republic to use it with the utmost efficiency and effectiveness in daily work to include all the halls of the criminal and economic courts.

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The new system also allows the transfer of oral pleadings, the decisions of the judges and the sayings of the accused; To a written text, by using artificial intelligence that transforms the sound into a written editor with the aim of automating the records of the sessions and dispensing his book The minutes of the session manually.

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The launch ceremony started with a presentation of a film material documenting the technical services provided by the remote litigation system and digital services to the Ministry of Justice and the foreign marriage office."RTL"> & nbsp;

At the beginning of his speech, the Minister of Justice affirmed that this system is a milestone in which it is not sufficient to preserve the ancient judicial legacy of Egypt, but rather add new pages of creativity and leadership to it, and that it is time to keep pace with the procedures for litigation technical development, indicating that this system is a leading strategic step towards updating the criminal justice system and its objective guarantees without the need for personal presence, which reduces time and reduces the burdens and preserves Rights and preserve freedoms and ensure the continuation of the active judicial work under any emergency circumstance and with any exhibited barrier and facilitate the means of litigation to the completed justice, which is the purpose of the ends that the ministry seeks in implementation of the directives of His Excellency President/ Abdel Fattah Al -Sisi, President of the Republic by facilitating the means of litigation and seeking a full digital transformation with the preservation of rights and freedoms.

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In his speech, the Minister of Justice appreciated the efforts of the ministries of communications and information technology and the loyal interior and their fruitful cooperation not only in this project, but also in many projects and achievements in a manner that reveals the meat of state institutions and the established institutional awareness that the judicial work is a wide system in which efforts are integrated and its ultimate goal remains to preserve the capabilities of the homeland and raise its flag.

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In his speech, Dr. Amr Talaat, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, affirmed that this system represents a steady step in the march of joint cooperation between the ministries of communications and information technology, justice, and the interior to implement the mechanisms for filing a criminal case in line with the requirements of the digital age, as the system contributes to enabling judges to consider criminal cases from distance, and direct all procedures for considering cases without the need for the actual presence of all parties The case is in the courtroom; Adding that this cooperation is a brick and light in the edifice of the construction of the justice system in the digital Egypt by adapting technology to accelerate the procedures and facilitate the litigation process, explaining that more than 850 optical fiber lines have been connected within one year for each court hall, reform center and a police department with the aim of activating the system of consideration in the renewal of precautionary imprisonment with an unprecedented time efficiency in a way that contributes to providing effort and expenses, as has been provided The system with a total of 1530 visual communication units to enable the judge to address the parties to the case wherever they are and to make one session to be held at more than one location at the same time; Adding that the readiness of the digital infrastructure has been strengthened in order to allow lawyers, judges and witnesses to participate from a distance in a believing environment that adheres to the highest standards of cybersecurity in a new step that comes in the wake of what was implemented in the economic courts in the remote litigation system.

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Dr. Amr Talaat added that the system of converting the spoken text from the facts of the session was applied to a written text using linguistic identification and artificial intelligence techniques; Adding that the system was completely built through the Applied Innovation Center of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology with the minds of Egyptian engineers, with a precision rate of more than 96%; It is the highest among all the corresponding systems that recognize the spoken speech in the classical and colloquial Arabic language in its various dialects; Stressing that the current era has become the algorithms one of the most important tools of the contemporary judge. The two ministers witnessed a virtual session to extend a remote reserve imprisonment, in which the accused and a remote lawyer appeared before a district in the East Alexandria Court.

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The launch of this system comes within the framework of the Ministry of Justice’s readiness to implement the new criminal procedures law approved by the House of Representatives in the last session, which organized remote litigation procedures in criminal cases.

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At the end of the visit & nbsp; The Counselor/ Minister of Justice conducted an inspection tour inside the corridors of the court, the sessions halls, the deliberation rooms and the front office, and the tour ended with a meeting with the Judges of the Court of Appeal, the Court of First Instance, and the members of the Public Prosecution, in the presence of the Counselor/ Zakaria Youssef Hassan Harzallah, President of the Alexandria Court Alexandria

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