Exceeding seniority .. The new Chief Justice worked in the UAE and pays tribute to the Sisi human rights

Karim Adel - Cairo

Judicial sources revealed that the new president of the Court of Cassation, Counselor Abdullah Amin Mahmoud era was ranked fifth among the oldest Vice-President of the Court of Cassation, which means that the selection came to exceed four senior advisers, which is contrary to the established legal norms in Egypt for years.

The sources expressed concern about this choice, saying to Al Jazeera Net that his choice beyond seniority "evidence of the satisfaction of the security authorities, and this is a calamity."

The leader of the Supreme Court of Justice, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, took the oath of office before Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday, replacing Majdi Abul-Ela, who reached the legal age for retirement on June 30. Judges and media in Egypt used to describe the post The "Chief Justice".

The sources explained that the established judicial norms are that the oldest is the right to preside over the court to be an elder of the judges, explaining that the seven oldest members of the court are the advisors: Taha Sayed Ali Qassem, Atef Abdel Samie Ali Faraj, Hassan Mohamed Hussein Al Saidi, Omar Mahmoud Brik, Ezzar, and Fathi al-Masri Bakr al-Arabi, in addition to the adviser Ahmed Abdel-Qawi Hassan Ayoub.

Sisi chose one of the seven most recent names of the vice-presidents of the Court of Cassation sent by the Supreme Judicial Council, in accordance with a recent amendment to the constitution that changed the way judges were appointed, in which judges saw an end to the independence of the judiciary.

The second paragraph of Article 185 of the amended Constitution stipulates that "the President of the Republic shall appoint the heads of the judicial bodies and bodies from among the oldest of their seven deputies for a period of four years or for the remainder of the period until he reaches retirement age, whichever is earlier, and for one time throughout his term of office, Law".

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The biography of the adviser Abdullah Amin Mahmoud Ezer reveals his loan to work as Vice-President of the Federal Supreme Court of the United Arab Emirates for 6 years.

According to an autobiography published in the local press, the advisor received a bachelor's degree in law from Ain Shams University in 1973 with a very good grade. He was appointed assistant to the prosecution in December of the same year and was appointed to the court of first instance in October 1981. , Then head of the Public Prosecutor's Office until he was assigned to the judicial inspection and then a public prosecutor in the Public Prosecutor's Office in 1990.

He was appointed as a judge at the Court of Cassation in 1994 and then as its deputy in 1996. He has been appointed to the Court of Cassation's technical office since 2015. He has also been a member of the Faculty of Law at Cairo University for two years.

It is noteworthy that the Court of Cassation is the supreme court in the criminal courts in Egypt, and the final judgments are final and enforceable and can not be challenged.

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According to local media reports close to the Authority, the Counselor supports the era of the retention of the death penalty while consolidating human rights guarantees at all stages of the investigation and trial.

Al-Shorouq newspaper, which is close to the authority, said that social imprisonment is a social necessity and that the Egyptian judiciary - headed by the Court of Cassation - has the prerogative to establish human rights principles and to surround them with a protective fence.

"It is a shame to say that human rights are violated in Egypt after all the guarantees that have become a daily practice of the judiciary and have become one of the constants and Muslim women," he said in an official speech on behalf of Egypt's Supreme Judicial Council in the National Seminar on the Modernization of Punitive Legislation in Egypt. "He said.

He added that the Egyptian judiciary and the judgments of the Court of Cassation surrounded the accused at all stages of the criminal proceedings with guarantees to ensure the integrity of the investigation and the fairness of the trial, and arranged for the invalidity of evidence generated by coercion, torture or outright violation of the provisions.

The new "Sheikh of Judges" remarks come at a time when local and international human rights organizations confirm that Egypt is witnessing the worst periods of human rights violations in terms of fabricating charges and torture in prisons and detention centers, which are packed with more than 60,000 detainees on political and opinion issues. Fair trials, while the Government always emphasizes the absence of political detainees, that prisons have only accused persons in criminal cases and that they respect human rights with all prisoners.