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EOHR Issues a Report on Freedom of Transport Transgression
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22/2/2006
Wednesday the 22nd of February 2006, The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) issues its qualitative report on freedom of transport transgression held in Egypt entitled 'Freedom of Transport Transgression [Egypt] ….Whose Responsibility?'.
The report's recommendations calls for bolting any decree that violates citizens' right to travel unless he/she has been subjected to investigation and it might be an alternation to provisional detention or in case he/she has been under judicial prosecution. While on the other hand, many citizens whom were put on prevention list were not absolutely charged, also the citizens' crimes most probably doesn't affect the state's national security.
In this context, EOHR demands scheduling transport transgression trials in the state's priorities, in which there is a gap between the number judges and the quantity of settled trials in order to avoid any delay in their agenda and it also demands to determine the specialised state organ where concerned citizens should present complaints, in which according to the law, Administrative Judiciary Court has the right to check on transport prevention decrees issued by the General Prosecutor, Attorney General and the other judicial institutions.
Finally, EOHR calls upon the state to put an end to the Executive's transport prevention decrees, while keeping the Interior Ministry's right to file a court case provides the necessity of hindering transportation and putting citizens on prevention list and a determined period for examining prevention cases should be set and it shouldn't exceed one month, and only in case of emergency.
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