The Appeal of that the article no. 2\112 of the Egyptian Children Law is unconstitutional

In the context of its concern to support the Egyptian Children rights, the Association for Human Rights Legal Aid appealed that the article no. 2\112 of the Egyptian Children Law unconstitutional, Regarding the case no. 6895 of the year 2005 in Aljeza Court of Juvenile Misdemeanor, the court has responded admitted presenting a detailed memo of the appeal in the session dated 4\6\2005.

The facts of this case referred to the accusation leveled against a 16-years-old juvenile girl, of murdering her baby girl, when the Juvenile Prosecution demanded her punishment according to the previously mentioned article, providing that the accused juvenile to punish for a murder crime that is punished by death sentence, by imprisonment her at least 10 years. Aljieza Court of Juvenile Misdemeanor sentenced the accused girl by 15 years imprisonment with validation, in its session dated 21\5\2005, the lawyer of the Association for Human Rights Legal Aid, AHRLA, have attended this session and made appeal referring to that article of law is unconstitutional, because this article is not in accordance with the institution and with the international conventions, thereby its imposing intensive law on children with no discriminations which even made their position worse than adults one who can make use of the article no. 17 of the panel law, by giving the judge the authority to reduce the death sentence to temporary hard labor which might be at least 3 years imprisonment, but all that do not apply on the Egyptian Children in this article of law, considering the basic rights of children according to article 3 of the International Conventions of Child Rights.

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