CAIRO: The Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional and Legislative Affairs of the People`s Assembly approved during its session on Sunday, headed by Sobhi Saleh, a bill, amending some provisions of the military judiciary code, No. 25 of 1966, sponsored by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. The amendment was introduced by Maj. Gen. Mamdouh Shahin, a member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, stipulates the abolition of Article 6 of the Act, which was to allow the president to refer civilians to military courts, and the amendment also requires the military prosecutor and military courts to refer its proceedings on their own, and without any fees to the General Prosecution, pending or ongoing investigation. Under the new amendment, anyone convicted according to final provisions in the crimes forth in Part II, of the second book of the Penal Code, crimes of terrorism, which had not previously presented to the Supreme Court of Military Appeals, and referred to the Military Justice, under Article 6 of this law should submit an appeal to the Supreme Court. Shaheen said, “The first paragraph of this article will refer cases considered by the military prosecutor or military courts, to the civilian courts, and that in coordination with the Attorney General, several cases have been referred to ordinary courts and military courts looked at more than 8 thousand issue before February 11, 2011, and after this date in the absence of a judiciary or courts or civilian police, more than 3,000 people have been tried , were and sentenced with reduced penalties , especially those who were carrying knives or breaking into shops, and they were pardoned. The dreaded Mubarak-era ‘Emergency Law', allowed military trials for civilians, among other violations of human rights, and too, kept Egypt in a perpetual state of maritial law.
