The Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession (ACIJP) have reached a joint provisional agreement with the Libyan judicial authorities concerned with the case of the Egyptians sentenced to death. Steps will be taken by both sides in order to solve the crisis of the Egyptians sentenced to death who are currently imprisoned in Libya.
This agreement was reached through meetings and discussions held from 22nd – 27th June 2008 between ACIJLP director Nasser Amin and Lieutenant Belqasim Qarqoum, head of the Judicial Police Body of the Popular General Committee for Justice, and Mohamed Tarneesh, the executive director of the Gaddafi Development Foundation’s Human Rights Association.
It is envisaged that these steps, once completed, will lead to the release of five Egyptians sentenced to death, in accordance with the Libyan Reconciliation and Compensation Law No. 6 of Hejri year 1423. It is also expected that these steps will lead to the reduction of the sentence from the death penalty to life imprisonment for the rest of the men sentenced to death under Libyan Law 48 of the year 1956 and the amendments made to it 2000.
In addition, important points of agreement were reached surrounding the crisis of the Egyptians sentenced to life imprisonment and who are currently being held in Libyan prisons.
These agreements were reached within the context of the joint cooperation between ACIJLP and the Libyan lawyers and judicial bodies concerned, and cooperation between Libyan civil society institutions, in particular the Gaddafi Development Foundation’s Human Rights Association and the E’tassemo Charitable Association.
