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EOHR holds a seminar entitled "Towards a Law Annulling the Imprisonment Sentence in Publication Cases"
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11/3/2006
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) is holding on Sunday March 12th 2006, at Pyramisa Hotel, a seminar entitled "Towards a Law Annulling the Imprisonment Sentence in Publication Cases" discussing the needed amendments that will annul the freedom restriction sentences in cases of opinion and publication. The seminar will be attended by some Editors en Chiefs, Media professors, members of the People's Assembly, and Human Rights activists.
The seminar is made up of three sessions
The first session discusses
The press freedom breaches in Egypt, "Testimonies" about mistreating and assaulting journalists, investigating with journalists in the Public Prosecution Office, and the trial of journalists in courts of law.
The second session discusses
Obstacles facing a new law for annulling imprisonment of journalists.
The third sessions discusses
Suggested amendments for annulling imprisonment sentences in publication cases, and the role of the Journalists Syndicate in protecting journalists from freedom restriction sentences.
The seminar is aiming at discussing the problem of issuing a law that bans the imprisonment of journalists in publication cases and the obstacles facing such law, despit that two years has passed since President Mubarak promised to annul this sentence. EOHR is adopting the law draft provided by the Journalists Syndicate amending law 96 for the year 1996, regarding the regulation of journalism and articles (20, 21, 22, 28), and also articles of the Egyptian Penal Code (171, 302, 303, 306, 307), and is aiming at presenting it to the public opinion circles and the People's Assembly and Shura Council, also trying to limit sentences in such cases to fines with a maximum amount of such fines, especially that the injured has the right to respond in the same newspaper and to file a civil case demanding remedy in a civil court of law, if the journalist is proven guilty. The seminar is also discussing the possibility of forming a single judiciary authority, with a jurisdiction to investigate in publication crimes.
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