{"id":21857,"date":"2021-05-09T20:15:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T18:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afteegypt.org\/?p=21857"},"modified":"2021-05-10T20:17:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T18:17:14","slug":"aftes-weekly-legal-bulletin-2-may-9-may-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afteegypt.org\/en\/legal-updates-en\/weekly-legal-bulletin-en-2\/2021\/05\/09\/21857-afteegypt.html","title":{"rendered":"AFTE\u2019s Weekly Legal Bulletin (2 May : 9 May 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"
AFTE files two lawsuits demanding the broadcast of the House of Representatives\u2019 and the Senate\u2019s sessions and submits a request to provide necessary health care to human rights lawyer Muhammad Ramadan<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Legal Bulletin covers the lawsuits in which AFTE provides the necessary legal aid, in accordance with AFTE\u2019s framework.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
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State Council Courts<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n
AFTE has filed two lawsuits before the second circuit of the Administrative Judiciary Court. The first lawsuit was against the speaker of the House of Representatives and carried No. 64322 of 75 judicial year. The second lawsuit was against the speaker of the Senate and carried No. 46319 of 75 judicial year. Both lawsuits are challenging the decision not to broadcast the parliamentary sessions on television and digital platforms or to publish them in writing in the Official Gazette. The former speaker of the house of representatives Ali Abdel-Aal, had decided since 11 January 2016 to cancel the live broadcast of the parliamentary sessions.<\/span><\/p>\n
AFTE stressed the importance of ensuring multiple forms to disclose the parliamentary sessions for the public, by broadcasting them on TV and digital official platforms, in order to guarantee public oversight over MPs and enhance the political participation of citizens. In this regard, AFTE issued <\/span>a detailed statement<\/a><\/span> containing both full lawsuits, and called on all MPs and leaders of political parties to support its call for broadcasting the parliamentary sessions.<\/span><\/p>\n
AFTE issued <\/span>a paper<\/a><\/span> on the importance of broadcasting parliamentary sessions, after the first meeting of the newly-elected House of Representatives in January 2021. <\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Criminal courts<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n
The council chamber of the criminal court renewed the detention of assistant professor at national research centre, Hamed Sedeek, pending case No. 1356 of 2019, Supreme state security. Sedeek was arrested from his house on 23 September 2019, and was previously on a partial hunger strike in the past year, due to the continued prevention of visits because of the Covid-19 procedures.<\/span><\/p>\n
Sedeek faced harsh conditions of detention in a supermax prison \u201cAl-Aqrab Prison\u201d, in addition to being prevented from doing outdoor exercise and receiving letters and books.<\/span><\/p>\n
Since last year, there were campaigns in Egypt, calling up to release prisoners, among them the political prisoners and the most likely to get infected, according to <\/span>AFTE\u2019s campaign<\/a><\/span> launched in june 2020. <\/span><\/p>\n