Fears are rising in Egypt over the Egyptian president appointment of top judges for the first time in the country’s modern history, criticism of the judiciary’s lack of independence is rampant.

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced six defendants to death after being found guilty in the case known as “Popular Resistance in Kerdasa” Meanwhile 41 other defendants were sentenced to lifetime imprisonment.

The day after a set of controversial constitutional amendments were approved in a national referendum in April, the Minister of Justice sent three laws to the heads of Egypt’s judicial bodies.

Egypt’s State Prosecution has ordered that eight suspects, who were extradited from Kuwait in July, be detained for 15 days pending investigation.

Egyptian security authorities have executed five persons from the same family after they were convicted of abducting and killing a four-year-old child.

The Disciplinary Board of the Cairo Court of Appeals has postponed the trial of the Court of Appeal President, Hisham Raouf, and the Court of Cassation vice-president, Assem Abdel-Jabbar, who were detained after they helped draft a law against torture.

The Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday renewed the detention of former justice minister Ahmed Soliman for 45 days, pending investigations into charges of joining an unlawful group and disseminating false news on Egypt’s political and economic situation to disturb the peace.

Egypt’s Attorney General Nabil Sadek said that the memorandum of understanding for judicial cooperation signed in Washington earlier in July is the first of its kind, affirming Egypt’s willingness to cooperate with the world countries in this regard.

Over 500 political prisoners in the Scorpion wing of Egypt’s notorious Tora Prison have reached day 38 of their hunger strike, which they began in June to protest against the death of former President Mohamed Morsi.

The brave people who work to protect Egyptians from abuse are under aggressive and accelerating attack. The attackers come from the government, its proxies in the media, its security forces, and even elements of the supposedly independent judiciary. The goal is to neutralize the country’s human rights movement, creating an …