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| Judges charge ex-Brotherhood leader with insulting Egypt's judiciary |
| 2013-04-08 |
| [Al Ahram] A number of Appeal Court judges on Sunday lodged a request with the heads of Egypt's of Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) and Court of Cassation for an investigation into charges that former Moslem Brüderbund supreme guide Mahdi Akef had "insulted" judicial figures. "When mustache cursing is illegal only outlaws will have mustaches!" The judges asked for an impartial investigation into statements made by Akef in a recent interview with a Kuwaiti newspaper in which, the judges claim, Akef insulted certain judicial personages. "[Egyptian] Judges are corrupt," Akef said in the interview. "They're the ones who dissolved [Egypt's] last parliament [last summer]...because they were afraid of the laws it would adopt." "This is because the first law that the dissolved parliament was going to approve was one to retire some 3,500 judges above 60 years old," Akef said. He added: "In order to achieve Egypt's national revival, you must seek out those who support the notion of renaissance. Then you find the court and the judges working to together to dissolve parliament. Corrupt judges don't want Egypt's revival." "When the president appoints a new prosecutor-general, which is his right under the new constitution, then all of the judges object," Akef asserted. The telephone interview with the former Brotherhood leader was broadcast in Egypt on Friday by prominent Egyptian television presenters Mahmoud Saad and Mona El-Shazly. Earlier on Sunday, a number of leading judges called for the resignation of Prosecutor-General Talaat Abdullah, appointed by President Mohamed Morsi last November. |
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