MP Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat (Head of the PA's Human Rights Committee) criticized the resolution issued by the Minister of Justice No. 4991/2012, which was published in the Official Gazette on June 13, 2012. This resolution gives the officers and noncommissioned officers of the military intelligence and military police the authority of the judicial officers in the crimes committed by civilians. He described it as the return of the emergency law dressed in military uniforms, and a revival of the emergency law which the people got rid of just a few days ago.
El-Sadat considered the resolution a derogation of the rights and freedoms of citizens and all the guarantees associated with them. It is like a regress to where we were before the revolution; to the special procedures and to the attacks on public liberties. He stressed that the Minister of Justice does not have any right to legislate as if he was an executive authority because legislations must come from the parliament being the only competent authority for issuing legislations.
El-Sadat noted that the next few days will not be able to cope with any decisions that will fuel the turmoil of the Egyptian street by making it constantly feel that it will inevitably regress little by little to square one, after the Egyptian citizens felt that they will live freely in their country without emergencies or restrictions on their liberties.
He pointed out that no matter how urgent the security situation seemed there must be alternative options or methods to erase the old saying each law has its victims because the victims of such decisions are not an individual or two, but an entire people.
Mostafa Jibreel
Media Coordinator
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