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مواضيع متعلقة :Who is entitled to hold public prosecutors accountable in Egypt?
Cairo - 22nd June, 2006
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo) welcomed the release of accused activists in the case no. 415/2006- state security. However, HRinfo was disappointing because the detention renewal for both Mohamed Al-Sharkawi and Karim Al-Shaer for 15 days more.
The renewal session for Al-Sharkawi's and Al-Shaer was marked by a quarrel between the defence lawyers and the investigator, who expressed his intentions to turn the report about torturing Al-Sharqawy to just a misdemeanor, in which the charge would be Cruel treatment (versus non-identified), and not to question Qasr El-Nil police station commissioner, overlooking the International Convention against Torture which has became an internal legislation upon the signature made by the Egyptian government on it, 20 years ago.
Al-Sharkawi's case has likely become a key example in talking about the public prosecution independence and impartiality in Egypt. It is full of excessively gross violations and blatant bias. We've demanded, more than once, to question the commissioner of Qasr El-Nil police station, to provide Al-Sharkawi with the necessary urgent medical care, to appoint a magistrate to investigate with him, and to adhere with the Egyptian Penal Code and the Convention against Torture. After a month, the public prosecutor is still turning a deaf ear to our demands.Legally, we are not allowed to claim the prosecution corrupt, yet we wonder about the body that is entitled hold the prosecution accountable?"
Gamal Eid, HRinfo's Executive Director said.
Al-Sharkawi's defence demanded the Public Prosecutor to conduct investigation into the Al-Sharkawi's allegations that the Ministry of Interior has falsified the prosecution's decision, changed the name of the hospital in which Al-Sharqawy was supposed to be admitted, from Al-MANIAL University Hospital to the prison hospital. Though it was doubted from Public Prosecutor in the first place.
"From the beginning, it was clear that there is an enmity between the defence lawyers and the prosecution. Releasing opinion prisoners was an attempt to calm the national and the international public opinion, it came as a result of the efforts done to spot lights on the violations against freedom of expression in Egypt, though the violations still being committed" Eid said. "Al-Sharkawi was detained upon false allegations by the Ministry of Interior, torturing him is a crime that has not been investigated into up till now." Eid added.
HRinfo believes that the violations committed against Al-Sharkawi are in response to his persistence in standing for the judges' demands, as well as his keenness to blow in the whistle about his detention conditions in his messages to his lawyers and friends.
Worthy mentioning, the orders to release Alaa Saif and other 22 defendants in the case No 415/2006 has not been carried out yet, they are still in custody of the Ministry of Interior, which means that the release orders were not meant to be implemented.
Although the prison administration banned some of Al-Sharkawi's letters to his lawyers and his mother, he managed to send a letter that was published on HRinfo website.
Related topics:
http://hrinfo.net/lit/06/pr0530.shtml
http://hrinfo.net/press/2006/pr0615.shtml
http://hrinfo.net/press/2006/pr0527.shtml
http://hrinfo.net/egypt/hmcl/2006/pr0604.shtml
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