مركز ماعت للدراسات الحقوقية والدستورية

Maat Center Demands the setting up of Guarantees to Challenge Terrorism and the releasing of All Detainees.

22/06/2007

At the end of the training course held by Maat Center for Judicial and Constitutional Studies in Giza governorate concerning training lawyers for legal procedure of detainees' issues and continued for two days. During this course, the center handled representing a work papers which themes included commenting on Emergency law, legal procedures concerning detainees' issues, torture crime in the Egyptian legislation and in international charters, challenging terrorism between the Egyptian legislation and international charters, executing judgments in administrative judiciary.

Participants in the training called upon the institutions concerned for suggesting and forming laws to sit up guarantees insure that the new terrorism law, intended to be issued, will not harm rights and public freedoms provided by the constitution and international charters. This could be achieved by included the law a clear and definite definition of terrorism coordinating with the principle of generality and abstractness of legal law on one hand, and adopting clear policy to limit the spreading of social violence phenomenon on the other hand.

In the same context, participants called for including the new law a hard criminal punishment against those who are authorized to execute and apply the provisions of this law in the case that one of them commits a violation of rights and public freedoms. In addition to that, they demand a guarantee that all victims of applying this law will gain their full right in civil compensation to console harm.

Moreover, participants pointed out that it is important that minister of interior tack a serious step towards ending detainees' file, as it is a remainder of the emergency condition, which the president promised to end after issuing new law to challenge terrorism. This could be achieved through issuing a report to release all detainees who did not accused of committing definite crimes, who did not trailed before their normal judge, and who has no final judicial judgments issued against them.

At the end of the training course, participants confirmed the importance of the role played by media in the field of challenging terrorism, reject violence, and settle peace culture.

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