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| Africa: North |
| Constitution bans extradition of Egyptian citizens |
| 2005-07-17 |
| Egyptian public prosecutor Maher Abdulwahed said Saturday the Egyptian constitution does not allow the extradition of any Egyptian citizen, accused of a crime, abroad. Abdulwahed told reporters the public prosecution in Egypt has not received an official notification on the involvement of the Egyptian researcher in the National Center for Researches Dr. Majdi al Nashar in a crime outside the country. "All what the prosecution knows on this regard is mere news published on the press," he said. Egyptian authorities arrested Nashar last Thursday, after British reports suggested his link with recent London blasts. He also said a foreign country can request from Cairo to question an Egyptian citizen on a particular case only if both countries have signed a judicial agreement. Egyptian Interior Minister Habeeb al Adeli had reconfirmed that detained Dr. Nashar, the 33-year-old biochemist whom Scotland Yard suspected was implicated in the July 7 London bombings, was not linked to al Qaeda network. In statements published today by the "Al-Jumhouriya" daily, the minister said reports of Dr. Nashar's links to al Qaeda "were baseless and the result of hasty judgment." London police, however, had previously affirmed they had found proof that perpetrators of the bombings, which claimed the lives of 54 people and wounded some 700 others, were linked to al Qaeda. |
| Posted by:Fred |