The Association for Human Rights Legal Aid

instituted proceedings before the Administrative Court

in order to obtain a formal copy of a torture case of a family in Helwan.

In 7/6/2004, the Association for Human Rights Legal Aid instituted proceedings before the Administrative Court of the no. 23692 of the juridical year 58, against the Mr. Consultant the Ministry of Justice, and Mr. Consultant the Attorney General, and Mr. Consultant the Deputy Director of South Cairo Prosecutions, and Mr. Chief of Helawn Prosecution. The suit demands to obtain immediate ruling of obligating the Public Prosecution to delivering the lawyers of AHRLA as a legal representatives of the victims a formal copy of the inquiries papers and the testimonials of the witnesses and the policemen.

The involved law case is about the breaking in some citizens’ homes by the police investigation of Helwan, as searching for their relative who accused of murder crime, they all have been arrested and detained in Helwan police station in order to force them to confess of the place of their accused relative, it is very clear that all these practices are contrary to the institution and the international conventions for human rights, because all these innocent person were exposed to the most awful kinds of torture and terror like beating the men harshly, and abuse the women and rape some of them.

The law case has been sent to the South Cairo Prosecution under secret numbers that has no specific legal sense, so the Association ( AHRLA) considered the resolution,  that prevents the lawyers from obtaining a formal copy of the case papers, as an administrative resolution, and as a result of that it is possible to appeal it before the Administrative Court.

In that context, the Association expresses its deep concern about the role played by the Prosecution of Helwan in violation of the defending and sues.

That action made by the Association towards this law case is untraditional, and we resorted to the Administrative Court, because it is the court of legitimacy, and we hope that the authority make legal principle about the resolutions of the Public Prosecution in similar cases.

The Association also calls for all human rights organizations to support it in order to make trail of the officers who have committed these torture and authority misuse crimes.

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