- Mr. Essam El-Islambouli – Constitutional Jurist and Lawyer at the Court of Cassation and the Supreme Constitutional Court
- Mr. Negad El-Borai – Lawyer at the Court of Cassation and Member of the Board of Trustees of the National Dialogue
- Mr. Malek Adly, Director of the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights
- Mr. Nasser Amin – Lawyer and Secretary General of the Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession and Coordinator of the Arab Coalition of NGOs for the International Criminal Court
- Ms. Hoda Abdel Wahab – Lawyer at the Court of Cassation and Executive Director of the Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession and Director of the Justice Support Foundation
Justice Support Foundation affiliated to ACIJLP (The Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and Legal Profession) has organized a round table, Tuesday evening, the 10th of January, 2023, to discuss the amendments to be made to the Egyptian Criminal Procedure Law while concurrently being discussed at the parliament. Thirty people, including members of the National Dialogue Committee, former ministers, members of the Senate, and a number of independent lawyers and workers in civil society institutions, as well as some legal researchers have attended the round table.
Initiating the round table, Mr. Nasser Amin has welcomed the participants and reviewed the draft law of the new Criminal Procedures Law regarding its most important provisions. He explained that the project is being considered in the Parliament since 2017, and that circumstances has been changed a lot since then which demands a new approach in the philosophy and principles of law so that it precisely and strictly balances between the requirements of society’s right and the rights and freedoms of individuals, without overriding each other.
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