• Support and Protect of Child Rights Program

A new victory for The Association.

The Court of Appeal Misdemeanor for Juveniles

In Aljeeza permitted for AHRLA to make

An appeal before the High Constitutional Court

On the item no. 2/112 of the Child Law.

In the frame of its continuing efforts to purify the Egyptian Legislative structure from the laws that do not agree with the Egyptian Constitution or with the International Conventions assigned by the Egyptian Government, and in the context of its program for support and protect the Egyptian Child Rights against the violations whether on the real level or on the legislative structure level, the Association for Human Rights Legal Aid ( AHRLA ) presented an appeal that the item no. 2/112 of the Egyptian Child Law is unconstitutional, this related to one of the AHRLA lawsuit before the Court of Appeal Misdemeanor for Juveniles in Aljeeza, the same court gave AHRLA its approval to present the appeal before the High Constitutional Court that in the session dated yesterday 4/6/2005, under the presidency of the consultant Mr. Ayman Ahmad Sabry, and the consultant Mr. Ossama Nageeb, the presidents of the court, and with the membership of  the consultants / MR. Mahmoud Abde Hakeem and Mr. Mohamed Ramadan as judges and Mrs. Amera Aly and Mr. Mady Abdel Raouf as social experts.

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, 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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