Egypts Unjust Justice system
Egypt’s Unjust Justice System
I am disappointed in the judicial system in Egypt where court rulings are based on the judge’s point of view without regard to the rule of law or due process. Every ruling can be overturned in Egypt, because you can predict the outcome of a case in advance just by knowing who is the case’s presiding judge.
Many judges are corrupt, this was apparent in the recent parliamentary election when one honest judge rated on her colleagues at a polling station headquarter in Bandar Damanhur – in Al-Bihaira governorate, some 170 kms northwest of Cairo, where Mustafa Al-Fiqi, NDP candidate, was declared winner while vote count clearly showed that the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Gamal Hishmat was the winner. The unfortunate thing is that the official result withstood and the whistle blower judge was stopped from work for telling the truth.
When the government wanted to ensure a guilty verdict in Ayman Nour bogus forgery case they appointed their yes-man judge Abdel Salam Gomaa who previously in 2002 - Convicted the sociology professor and rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian-American, of tarnishing Egypt's image. Ibrahim was sentenced to 7 seven years in prison. The Court of Cassation overturned the verdict. This Egyptian judge is notorious for handling the president's dirty work. A sycophantic follower of Mr. Mubarak.
This comes as a no surprise as corruption is destroying every noble value in Egypt. Judges are becoming just a tool of the government to maintain a tight grip on power. While they suppose to be a separate authority that can't be touched by the government mighty apparatus, the justice system has become a mockery of society with no justice in sight.
Judges are just humans who can be bought if the price is right. This is so disturbing because with the current justice system broken, there is no justice and no rule of law, only rule of the jungle and that's bad.
Lastly, the judges club in Egypt is trying to improve things a bit by pressuring the government to pass a new law to give more protection to judges and separate the executive authority form the judicial one, but the law has not been signed and the situation is stagnant with no light at the end of the tunnel
I am disappointed in the judicial system in Egypt where court rulings are based on the judge’s point of view without regard to the rule of law or due process. Every ruling can be overturned in Egypt, because you can predict the outcome of a case in advance just by knowing who is the case’s presiding judge.
Many judges are corrupt, this was apparent in the recent parliamentary election when one honest judge rated on her colleagues at a polling station headquarter in Bandar Damanhur – in Al-Bihaira governorate, some 170 kms northwest of Cairo, where Mustafa Al-Fiqi, NDP candidate, was declared winner while vote count clearly showed that the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Gamal Hishmat was the winner. The unfortunate thing is that the official result withstood and the whistle blower judge was stopped from work for telling the truth.
When the government wanted to ensure a guilty verdict in Ayman Nour bogus forgery case they appointed their yes-man judge Abdel Salam Gomaa who previously in 2002 - Convicted the sociology professor and rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian-American, of tarnishing Egypt's image. Ibrahim was sentenced to 7 seven years in prison. The Court of Cassation overturned the verdict. This Egyptian judge is notorious for handling the president's dirty work. A sycophantic follower of Mr. Mubarak.
This comes as a no surprise as corruption is destroying every noble value in Egypt. Judges are becoming just a tool of the government to maintain a tight grip on power. While they suppose to be a separate authority that can't be touched by the government mighty apparatus, the justice system has become a mockery of society with no justice in sight.
Judges are just humans who can be bought if the price is right. This is so disturbing because with the current justice system broken, there is no justice and no rule of law, only rule of the jungle and that's bad.
Lastly, the judges club in Egypt is trying to improve things a bit by pressuring the government to pass a new law to give more protection to judges and separate the executive authority form the judicial one, but the law has not been signed and the situation is stagnant with no light at the end of the tunnel
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