The ACIJLP submits a communication to the Public Prosecutor to Investigate Irregularities of its Inspection and Raid .

Cairo- January 2^nd, 2012

 

 The ACIJLP submits a communication to the Public Prosecutor to Investigate Irregularities of its Inspection and Raid

 

Mr. Naser Amin, head of the Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession submits communication No. 9 of 2012 to the public prosecutor, on Monday, 2^nd January 2012, requesting the investigation of irregularities that marred the inspection of the ACIJLP’s headquarters on Thursday, December 29th, 2011.

Naser Amin has also requested in his communication to the public prosecutor to hand over the ACIJLP’s headquarters in a legal manner, particularly a delegation of public prosecution aided by security forces informed Mr. Amin to hand over the ACIJLP’s headquarters twice respectively on the same date in which the headquarters is closed and sealed up with wax. Although members from the public prosecution and security forces have removed the seal, Mr. Amin refused to hand over the ACIJLP’s headquarters in this illegal manner for the sake of legitimacy and respect for the law, whether in the issue of inspection and closure of the ACIJLP or in the issue of handing over the ACIJLP’s headquarters.

It is worth mentioning that in an unprecedented event, since the establishment of the Arab Center for Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession (ACIJLP) in 1997, the headquarters of the ACIJLP exposed to an attack on Thursday, December 29th, 2011. In addition to, confiscating eight computers devices, hundreds of files related to the ACIJLP\'s activities, retaining all the ACIJLP\'s staff from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm and isolating them from the outside world during the inspection of the ACIJLP\'s headquarters by various authorities, including members from the public prosecution, special forces (The Thunderbolt) and criminal investigation officers under the full siege of soldiers and armed forces officers of the building in which the ACIJLP\'s headquarters is located and preventing the entry or exit of anyone to or from the building. The ACIJLP\'s officials and its staff were not informed about the reason for such procedures, in what context they are taken, they do not even write a record of evidence as an evidence of the confiscated computer devices or files, the duration in which the ACIJLP will be closed, or the official source of this resolution. They only informed the ACIJLP\'s that a decision has been issued to close and seal the ACIJLP, even before the inspection and without charges.