Egypt: Reject Draft Criminal Procedure Code

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Egyptian security officers guard a courthouse as prominent Egyptian rights lawyer lawyer Khaled Ali, arrives for a hearing, in Cairo, Egypt, November 8, 2017. © 2017 AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty (Geneva) – The Egyptian parliament must reject a proposed draft law that would replace the 1950 Criminal Procedure Code (CPC), Amnesty International, Dignity, Human Rights Watch, and the International Commission of Jurists said today. If enacted, the draft legislation would undermine Egypt’s already weakened fair trial rights protections and further…

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