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The Egyptian Bar Association announced on Thursday that it would go on strike for “indefinite period” to protest the imprisonment of six colleagues earlier this month for a fight with a store clerk.
“We will immediately suspend all activities and will suspend all appearances in court and participation in prosecutorial investigations from January 19 indefinitely,” the lawyers said on the union’s website.
According to the state-run daily al-Ahram, on January 5, the criminal court in Marsa Matrouh (Northwest) had a brawl with three court clerks in the coastal city on January 5. After that, six lawyers were sentenced to two years in prison.
According to a union statement, Egyptian lawyers believed they had “clear intentions to detain their colleagues without real justification” and said, “Let’s hurry and bring them to justice without taking the time to conduct a real investigation.” He criticized that
The six convicted attorneys have appealed the decision, and a court is expected to consider their requests on Sunday.
In December, thousands of Egyptian lawyers demonstrated outside the union’s headquarters in central Cairo. It is an unusual event in a country where public demonstrations are prohibited. He protested the new electronic billing system introduced by the Ministry of Finance.
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