Press release
Cairo:1/2/2003

EOHR’s Campaign to cease the emergency state

 “Towards a future without emergency”

Roundtable hosted by EOHR

The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) will held on Wednesday, 5^th February 2003 at 6:00 a.m., a round-table entitled “Towards a future without emergency” which comes on the occasion of EOHR’s campaign for the cessation of the emergency law no. 162 of year 1958 in Egypt . Worth mentioning that,  the state of emergency is supposed to be renewed next May which means that this law has been used continuously for 22 years.

The participants in this symposium are representatives from civil society institutions, political trends, journalists and academics. The suggested topics of discussion are:

 First: Forms of solidarity work targets urging authorities to cease the renewal of the emergency law.

 Second: Monitoring and evaluating the negative impacts of the emergency state on the legal, political and social structures.

 Third: Towards promoting the role of all social and political trends in order to remove the negative impacts of the emergency state.

 EOHR’s holds this meeting and hopes that it will motivate wide-range efforts of Egyptian society trends in order to discuss this serious issue as the cessation of the emergency state is considered a decisive step which shall promote the democratic development and motivate the human rights situation in Egypt.

 The chairperson of this round-table meeting is the head (Sheik) of judges, the counselor Yehia El Refa’i, and the ex- vice president of the Cessation Court and the honored of the Egyptian judges club.