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statements of the Egyptian Attorney General, Hamada El-Sawy, sparked a state of controversy on social media, after he said that his country is among the top ten countries in the world in the "integrity and purity of the judiciary."
Al-Sawy said - during the swearing-in ceremony for the new assistant prosecutors - "There is no place among us for those who are inferior, and we will not allow anyone to pollute the dress of the judiciary, and Egypt's ranking in integrity, purity and independence of the judiciary is among the top ten countries in the world," and added that "judicial values and traditions The whole world beat us to it."
No one is safe in the country, even if he owns millions and you pay them, in an instant and without any reasons, you can find yourself in prison and wear charges from here for the next year.. .co/utuVc8I76d
— 🏴☠️ (@ahmadovichz) December 7, 2021
A number of the pioneers of social networking sites in Egypt denounced the validity of this arrangement or the existence of such a classification - the purity of the judiciary - from the ground up.
Attorney General Counselor Hamada El-Sawy says that #Egypt is one of the top 10 countries in the ranking of the integrity and purity of the judiciary globally, during his speech at the swearing-in ceremony for the new assistant prosecutors pic.twitter.com/bdgufPZCVT
- Al Jazeera Egypt (@AJA_Egypt) December 6, 2021
A number of them referred to Egyptian models subjected to clear injustice that contradicts the attorney general's vision of the purity and integrity of the Egyptian judiciary, and among these examples is businessman Safwan Thabet, who Amnesty International said that the Egyptian authorities misuse anti-terrorism laws in order to arbitrarily detain him and his son, in conditions that amount to to torture, in retaliation for their refusal to hand over the assets of their company.
They also mentioned activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, human rights lawyer Muhammad al-Baqer and blogger Muhammad Oxygen, who have passed the legal pre-trial detention period, calling on the Public Prosecutor to consider the communications submitted to him regarding a number of these personalities.
So: Please, investigate the reports submitted to you by the family of Ahmed Seif, and our report on Muhammad Oxygen, and complaints about ill-treatment in prisons, blocking websites without judicial permission, and clearly inciting some broadcasters to violence and murder,
asking for just an investigation. We have no fairness!!
https://t.co/1OwPueQaNY
— Gamal Eid (@gamaleid) December 6, 2021
On the other hand, some of them affirmed their confidence in the Egyptian judiciary, and their happiness with the arrangement announced by the Public Prosecutor in his speech.
Corruption Indicators
It is noteworthy that Egypt fell to 117th place among 180 countries in the Global Corruption Perceptions Index for 2020, issued by Transparency International, after it was 106th in 2019 and 105th in 2018.
The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories according to the perceived levels of public sector corruption in them, uses a scale from zero to 100, where zero is the most corrupt and 100 is the most impartial. Egypt scored 33, compared to 35 in 2019.
Egypt also ranked 136th out of 139 countries in the Rule of Law Index for the year 2021, and eighth in the Middle East and North Africa region. In the details of the classification, Egypt ranked 109th in the world in "criminal justice".
The Rule of Law Index is affiliated with the World Justice Project Foundation (WJP), which is an annual report based on questionnaires from 138,000 families and 4,200 legal practitioners and experts in the participating countries. It consists of 8 main factors: the powers of government authorities, the absence of corruption, government transparency, fundamental rights, order and security, regulatory enforcement, civil justice, and criminal justice.