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Articles of the author Mona El Nahhas
Crisis far from over
Egypt's judicial circles have become embroiled in a heated legal dispute over the status of the prosecutor-general, Talaat Abdallah, in the wake of a court ruling on 27 March annulling his appointment. Judicial circles, together with many politicians, met the ruling with relief, viewing it as (...)

03 - 04 - 2013
‘Dialogue is the only option'
Who is responsible for the crisis Egypt is going through in your opinion? The crisis has been mainly caused by the Muslim Brotherhood and its failure to create a real political partnership in which all the political forces in the country can participate without any of them being excluded. After (...)

13 - 02 - 2013
Egypt's 2012 timeline
January 14Mohamed Al-Baradei withdraws from the presidential race. 21Egypt's Islamist forces win the majority of parliamentary seats. 25The first anniversary of the revolution. 29Egyptians cast their votes in the Shura Council elections. February 1At least 74 people are killed in clashes between (...)

19 - 12 - 2012
Who's targeting whom?
For the first time in its history, the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) decided on Sunday to suspend its work for an indefinite period. The decision was made after SCC judges were surprised on Sunday morning to find hundreds of Islamist protesters blockading the court building. The court said in (...)

05 - 12 - 2012
A controversial declaration
On 22 November, President Mohamed Morsi passed a new constitutional declaration which, legal experts argue, gives him unlimited powers. The new six-article declaration, the second to be issued since Morsi became president, is due to be temporarily enacted until the drafting of the country's new (...)

28 - 11 - 2012
Threats of a boycott
Threats to suspend work at courts and boycott judicial supervision of the voting over the new constitution were made by judges during an emergency general assembly of the Cairo Judges Club on 8 November held mainly to announce the rejection by judges of the draft. “Judges will not be a poisonous (...)

14 - 11 - 2012
How will it end?
Mona El-Nahhas writes on the current heated dispute over the status of the Supreme Constitutional Court in Egypt's draft constitution Members of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) announced in a statement issued on Monday that the court welcomed the current "understandable attitude" adopted (...)

25 - 10 - 2012
Not a lifetime job
Attempts to remove Prosecutor-General Mahmoud from his job have been caught up in legal and constitutional restrictions, writes Mona El-Nahhas The clash that erupted between the presidency and the judiciary recently ended on Saturday with a presidential announcement saying that the (...)

18 - 10 - 2012
Dangerous to freedom
A ministerial decree to amend the current emergency law has been rejected outright, Mona El-Nahhas reports Nakhnoukh is a name that may be on everyone's lips these days, but it was a familiar name to many even before his arrest. He was known as "The Muallim" (master) to those in his employ and as (...)

06 - 09 - 2012
A blow for press freedom
The case of journalist Islam Afifi has raised concerns about what can be published in Egypt, reports Mona El-Nahhas President Mohamed Mursi issued a decree prohibiting the jailing of journalists pending trial on charges relating to their professional activities on 23 August. Under the current law, (...)

30 - 08 - 2012
Difficult decision
Political factions are divided over participating in an anti-Muslim Brotherhood demonstration on 24 August, Mona El-Nahhas reports Trying to maintain Egypt's entity as a civil state, several political figures and movements are calling upon the public to take to the streets on 24 August in a bid to (...)

16 - 08 - 2012
Judgements being made
The appointment of a reformist as the new justice minister had judges talking, reports Mona El-Nahhas In what was viewed as an about-face, , chairman of Egypt's Judges Club, said on Saturday that he welcomed the appointment of Ahmed Mekki, former deputy chief justice of the Cassation Court, as the (...)

09 - 08 - 2012
A trail of broken promises
The National Front for the Completion of the Revolution's demands that President Mohamed Mursi keep his pre-election pledges have fallen on deaf ears, reports Mona El-Nahhas The National Front for the Completion of the Revolution blasted the performance of President Mohamed Mursi during a press (...)

02 - 08 - 2012
Conflicting accounts
What happened last week at Nasr City police station? Lawyers say one thing, the police another. Will we ever find out who is lying, wonders Mona El-Nahhas Dozens of lawyers had planned a peaceful march to the headquarters of the Interior Ministry on Tuesday to protest against delays in taking (...)

12 - 07 - 2012
Third way takes the stage
The formation of a new third current in Egypt's political life is giving hope to the country's secularists, reports Mona El-Nahhas A group of civil political forces announced the birth of a "third current" in Egyptian political life at a press conference held on 28 June at a downtown Cairo hotel, (...)

05 - 07 - 2012
A judicious delay?
Mona El-Nahhas assesses the reputation of the judiciary following its supervision of the presidential vote At 3pm on Sunday millions of Egyptians were staring at television screens waiting for the Presidential Elections Commission (PEC) to announce the name of the new president. The press (...)

28 - 06 - 2012
Judicial wrath
While parliament seems to have ended a crisis with the judiciary, judges remain combative, Mona El-Nahhas reports At a press conference held on Saturday in parliament, speaker Saad El-Katatni expressed his "total respect for Egypt's honourable judges who, via their rulings, strongly implant the (...)

14 - 06 - 2012
Draft law clash
A dispute between parliament and the Supreme Constitutional Court has infuriated judges, Mona El-Nahhas reports Anger has swept judicial circles in the wake of a new draft law which will reportedly marginalise the role of the Supreme Constitutional Court in controlling legislation passed by (...)

24 - 05 - 2012
Judicial wrangling
Court rulings overturn legal challenges to the holding of presidential elections as called for by the Presidential Elections Commission, while judges lash a proposed parliamentary law regulating the formation and work of the Constitutional Court, Mona El-Nahhas reports The Higher Administrative (...)

17 - 05 - 2012
Long odds
Mona El-Nahhas assesses the chances of presidential contender Hisham El-Bastawisi Hisham El-Bastawisi is one of five left leaning presidential candidates. He first came to public attention as a reformist judge, spearheading the battle for greater judicial independence that began in (...)

03 - 05 - 2012
The final word
Mona El-Nahhas provides a résumé of the members of the Presidential Elections Commission, a body whose decisions cannot be appealed The 2011 Constitutional Declaration named the following as members of the judicial commission that will supervise the presidential poll: Farouk Sultan, chief justice (...)

03 - 05 - 2012
Eligible? Well... maybe
Mona El-Nahhas wonders who is entitled to stand in the presidential elections The registration period for presidential candidates closed Sunday noon amid a flurry of speculation that some of the 23 candidates who have submitted their papers could be excluded from the race on legal grounds. The (...)

12 - 04 - 2012
Plumbing the depths
Military pardons allow Khairat El-Shater's presidential bid, claims the Brotherhood's lawyer. Mona El-Nahhas delves into murky legal waters The Muslim Brotherhood's selection last week of its deputy supreme guide Khairat El-Shater to stand as the group's candidate in the presidential elections (...)

05 - 04 - 2012
Money talks
The suggestion that former regime officials may be able to buy their way out of prison has left many angry, writes Mona El-Nahhas Finance Minister Momtaz El-Said's 13 March revelation that the government was considering offers by Mubarak-era cronies currently incarcerated in Tora prison to return (...)

22 - 03 - 2012
Protests by the judges
In the wake of the decision to allow the six US nationals accused of working in Egypt illegally to leave the country, Egypt's judges are protesting against alleged political interference, reports Mona El-Nahhas Egypt's appeals court judges are due to hold an emergency general meeting today, in (...)

15 - 03 - 2012
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