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.

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

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.

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 …

Egyptian Public Prosecution yesterday challenged a previous court ruling to acquit former Interior Minister Habib Al-Adly and other defendants accused of stealing the ministry’s funds, demanding their retrial, Al-Watan newspaper reported.

The Supreme State Security Prosecution in Egypt has decided to imprison an American woman of Egyptian origins, Reem Mohammad Al-Dessouki, for 15 days on charges of joining a banned group, the Muslim Brotherhood.

Female Egyptian journalist Abeer Al-Safti has been subjected to sexual harassment in prison, Arabi21 reported activists saying yesterday.

Egypt’s Parliament approved on Wednesday the removal of the parliamentary immunity granted to a member of the parliament, Salah Eisa, for receiving bribes that reached EGP 2m to facilitate issuing construction permissions in Alexandria.