The law passed with minor changes despite calls for stronger safeguards
Hundreds of prisoners are languishing on death row, waiting for their sentences to be carried out.
Is a new amendment to Egypt’s Criminal Procedure Code an excessive legal restriction or a necessary temporary measure?
Parliament claims the amendments will expedite prosecution in terrorism-related cases
"The fact that the Public Prosecution can interrogate defendants without a lawyer present constitutes a violation of the Constitution,” MP Maha Abdel…
In a rare reversal, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi returned a draft law on criminal investigation and trial process to the House of…
The House of Representatives approved the new Criminal Procedures Code on Tuesday, marking an end to months of controversy around the foundational…
Amid an ongoing political conversation around the use and abuse of remand detention to hold political detainees, legislators have dusted off a…
Planned amendments to the Criminal Procedures Law would give the court the power to disregard witness testimonies during a trial, the privately owned newspaper…
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