Cairo: September 22, 2025

The Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession (ACIJLP) expresses its deep satisfaction with the directive of the President of the Republic to return the draft Criminal Procedures Law to the House of Representatives in light of a number of objections. These include the need to strengthen guarantees for the sanctity of the home, ensure greater safeguards for defendants throughout trial proceedings, expand alternatives to pretrial detention, eliminate ambiguities in the drafting, reinforce principles of governance, clarity, and practicality, and provide relevant ministries and institutions with sufficient time to prepare the mechanisms and models introduced in the draft law.

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Cairo: September 5, 2025

The Arab Coalition for the International Criminal Court (ICC), comprising 70 Arab non-governmental organizations, condemns the decision of the US administration to impose sanctions on three Palestinian human rights organizations operating in Gaza, one of which is a member of the Coalition, for their cooperation with the ICC.

The Arab Coalition for the ICC, established in 1999, reaffirms its full solidarity with Palestinian organizations that, under the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, continue to document and monitor war crimes and crimes against humanity committed amid relentless bombardment and starvation claiming the lives of children on a daily basis.

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Cairo: August 28, 2025

The Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and Legal Profession (ACIJLP) welcomes the decision of the Egyptian government to appoint 46 Egyptian women to the State Council as Assistant Delegates. Decision No. 92 of 2010, issued by the Special Council of the State Council on February 22, 2010, had stipulated “the completion of the appointment procedures for those deemed qualified among the applicants for the position of Assistant Delegate from graduates of the 2008 and 2009 classes.” The decision was not brought into force at the time.

Appointment Decision No. 447 of 2025 thus brings an end to legal discrimination against women assuming judicial office in the State Council. Women were first appointed to the Constitutional Court in 2003, to the ordinary judiciary in 2006, and to the Public Prosecution in 2023. This latest decision therefore closes the chapter on gender-based exclusion from the State Council, which Egyptian women endured for decades.

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The Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and Legal Profession (ACIJLP) expresses its profound concern regarding the ongoing situation of human rights lawyer Mahinour El-Masry. She has been repeatedly summoned for interrogation before the Supreme State Security Prosecution and subjected to a travel ban, not on the basis of any criminal conduct, but solely as a consequence of her activism and her work in the defense of human rights and of those unjustly detained.

The most recent summons, delivered to her family and requiring her appearance for interrogation, August 18, 92025, before the Supreme State Security Prosecution in Case No. 6322 of 2025, constitutes the fourth case in which the aforementioned lawyer has been investigated. This pattern has caused distress and intimidation to her family.

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