A number of legal experts denounced the raid carried out by security forces on the press syndicate's headquarters and the arrest of two journalists who were striking inside the syndicate on May 1, Al-Bawaba News reported. This opinion was based on the articles 67 and 77 from the criminal law which considers storming trade unions and syndicates as an offense. Article 70 from the Syndicate's regulation forbids entering the union without prior notice to the chairman of the syndicate. The legal experts demanded the immediate release of all the defendants invalidity. A number of legal and constitutional experts stated that all unions is protected by a strong constitution and law, because unions and political parties is one of the means to express opinion in a peaceful manner given by the law, and an outlet for its union members, stressing, what had acquired is a fatal error of executive power, and cannot be tolerated. Meanwhile, a number of legal and Constitutional experts see that the security forces and law enforcement officers should have addressed the union to hand over the journalists, for they aren't terrorists or insurgents to storm the union in this fashion, and also, the security forces should've contacted with the union's chairman. A law professor at Cairo University, Dr. Mahmoud Kabesh, added that if the journalists' union regulations prevent the union inspection or police forces entrance except during the presence of the union's chairman, then the security forces have violated the sanctity of the union, and broke the law and the Constitution, that stipulates that unions and political parties are an outlet for peaceful political views. Which is greed by another Constitutional expert Essam al-Islambouli, who stated that it isn't within the security forces right to storm professional and independent unions, especially the journalists' union that helps the state to stand on its feet again, and what happened in the absence of union chairman is a violation to the union's sanctity, while advising the chairman to submit an urgent complain to the Attorney General stating the violation of the security forces to the Journalists' Syndicate.
