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  • Updated: January 19, 2023

Egypt: Lawyers Begin Indefinite Strike To Protest Imprisonment Of Colleagues

Egypt: Lawyers Begin Indefinite Strike To Protest Imprisonme

Egypt Lawyers Goes On Indefinite Strike To Protest Imprisonment Of Colleagues

The Egyptian Bar Association announced on Thursday an "indefinite" strike to protest the imprisonment of six colleagues for a brawl with clerks earlier this month.

"We immediately suspend all our activities, we will stop appearing in court and participating in the investigations of the prosecution from January 19 and for an unlimited period," the lawyers announced on their union's website.

According to the state-owned daily al-Ahram, the criminal court of Marsa Matrouh (northwest) condemned six attorneys to two years in jail on Wednesday, following a scuffle between them and three court workers in the coastal city on January 5.

The Egyptian lawyers think that there was "a clear aim to detain their colleagues in detention without actual justification" and decry a "rush to put them to trial without taking the time to conduct a real investigation", according to the statement of their union.

The lawyers for the six offenders have filed an appeal, and the court is set to hear their plea on Sunday.

Thousands of Egyptian lawyers rallied outside their union's offices in central Cairo in December, an unprecedented occurrence in a nation where public rallies are prohibited, to protest the Ministry of Finance's new computerised billing system.

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