Cairo: October 2, 2025
The Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession (ACIJLP) reaffirms the continuation of its campaign opposing the draft Criminal Procedures Law and asserts its firm position on the necessity of reconsidering the draft in its entirety, given that it undermines numerous constitutional rights and safeguards and disturbs the necessary balance between individual rights and the public interest.
Despite the withholding of the final version of the draft approved by the House of Representatives from public scrutiny, and the non-publication of the original memorandum of objections submitted by the Presidency—of which only the substance was reported on some press websites—the ACIJLP, in continuation of its campaign launched in 2019 rejecting the draft Criminal Procedures Law, records its rejection and objection to the Presidency’s observations on three articles, as these entail a diminution of the guarantees and rights of defendants and of the rights of the defense, as follows:
