Egypt’s Minister of Justice Omar Marwan said that the Ministry headed to digitizing the litigation system, noting that filing legal cases or suing can be conducted remotely.

The Justice Ministry launched a new plan on Sunday to conduct detention renewals electronically instead of holding in-person court sessions, a move defense lawyers say will undermine basic due process rights.

Egypt’s Ministry of Justice has submitted a bill to parliament proposing amendments that would include further protections for survivors of sexual harassment who are afraid to speak up.

The Egyptian judiciary decided Sunday to release the former justice minister who served in the Mohammed Morsi government, reports Anadolu Agency.

Egypt’s parliament is set to discuss a new bill proposing a body be setup to invest assets confiscated from detainees.

Egyptian Ministry of Justice’s illicit gains department has approved reconciliation with Mounir Thabet, former Egypt’s president Hosni Mubarak’s brother-in-law, after he had paid as much as LE 45 million ($2.72 million) out of which he owes to the state.

Head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council Maha Azzam has written to the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet Jeria urging her to publicly condemn the regional conference on torture which will be held in Cairo at the beginning of September and will be co-hosted by the international body.

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 Egyptian government has been asked to help find missing 12-year-old British girl Elsa Salama who was taken away by her father Tamer Salama seven years ago on her last visit to Egypt with her mother.