The Arab Center for Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession (ACIJLP) demands the Egyptian Authorities immediately release the detainees and stop mass indiscriminate arrests of citizens
Cairo 29 September 2019
The Arab Center for Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession (ACIJLP) demands
the Egyptian Authorities immediately release the detainees and stop mass indiscriminate arrests of citizens
The Arab Center for Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession (ACIJLP) expressed its serious concerns over the Egyptian governments reactions to the protests that erupted on September 20th in many Egyptian governorates which were accompanied by the largest campaign of arrests of citizens in the vicinity of the events and their homes Around 1200 suspects have been referred to the Public Prosecution for investigation so far while authorities continue to refer suspects arrested to specialized prosecutions
This was also accompanied by unprecedented large scale campaigns of indiscriminate arrest of citizens after stopping them in public streets and transportation and checking their mobile phones without the permission of the Public Prosecution in a flagrant violation or personal rights assaulting privacy in violation of the provisions of the Egyptian Constitution particularly article no 57 which states that Private life is inviolable safeguarded and may not be infringed upon Postal telegraph
e-correspondence telephone calls and any other means of communications are inviolable and their confidentiality is guaranteed and they may only be confiscated examined or monitored by causal judicial order for a limited period of time and in cases specified by the law. The state shall protect the rights of citizens to use all forms of public means of communication which may not be arbitrarily disrupted stopped or withheld from citizens as regulated by the law
In addition to the apparent violations represented by these acts and practices of the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights particularly article no. 17 paragraph one which states that “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his privacy family home or correspondence
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