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6. BREAKING: Egypt's Judges Club to refrain from supervising constitutional poll

Tue Dec 11, 2012, 01:40 PM

Dec 2012

Hani Shukrallah ‏@HaniShukrallah

BREAKING: Egypt's Judges Club to refrain from supervising constitutional poll http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/60295.aspx via @ahramonline

Wow. You can barely keep up with this!

BREAKING: Egypt's Judges Club to refrain from supervising constitutional poll

Judges club declares it will not take part in overseeing Saturday's controversial referendum on Egypt's proposed constitution
Zeinab El Gundy , Tuesday 11 Dec 2012

The Egyptian Judges Club's general assembly announced at a Tuesday press conference in Cairo its final decision not to supervise Saturday's popular referendum on Egypt's draft constitution.

The club made its decision following the refusal of the vast majority of judges' clubs across the country to participate in the referendum as supervisors, according to statements by the club's general assembly.

Judge Ahmed Zend slammed the new constitutional declaration issued by President Mohamed Morsi on Saturday, describing it as an "insult" to the judiciary." The new constitutional declaration still makes the president's decisions immune from judicial appeal," he said.

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The new decree, however, states that all decisions made while the since-cancelled decree was in effect would remain impervious to judicial appeal, including the replacement of Egypt's Mubarak-appointed prosecutor-general, Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud.

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