Conclusion:
Most of the amendments that affected the Constitution, the Penal Code and the laws complementing it (specific criminal legislations) came without an urgent social necessity, and without taking into account the foundations and philosophy of comparative criminal laws. This does not discredit the argument that it came in exceptional circumstances, nor in a dynamic reality in which the good and the bad ripple, threatening state structure. Even in those exceptional cases, there are constitutional rules and provisions that must be adhered to and implemented. There are rights and freedoms that should not be violated nor imposed with restrictions that afflict them, emptying them of their content and undermining its essence. Most of the changes were as follows:
- Inaccurate wording, permeated with ambiguity and verbal flexibility that expands to include cases that the constitution prohibits criminalizing. This also increases the potentials of selective implementation in a way that violates the equal legal protection of those addressed with its provisions.
- The amendments brought some articles of laws that the Supreme Constitutional Court ruled unconstitutional, re-drafted and merged them again into the legislation in force at the present time.
- The amendments also brought the provisions of exceptional laws and planted them in the heart of ordinary ones; the thing that curtail the rights and freedoms of those who are addressed by these provisions and ought to obey rules and orders.
- Most of the amendments aimed at imposing the executive authority’s control over every opinion (said or written) and action made by opinion makers through words or formulations that expand to include all permissible things that can be interpreted broadly and flexibly to be subject to criminalization cycle despite the clarity of a legal rule that the exceptions interpretationmay should not be expanded. Rather, its interpretation must be narrowed whenever it is in the interest of the accused.
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