CAIRO - Chief of the Bar Association, Egypt's biggest professional Union, Hamdi Khalifa has called for an emergency meeting for the union's board to consider their mounting crisis with the judges. The meeting will be held on the eve of the trial of two lawyers accused of assaulting a prosecutor last month. Lawyers across Egypt have been on an open-ended strike after their two colleagues, Ehab Saa'i and Moustafa Fattouh, were sentenced to jail for five years for assaulting prosecutor Basem Abul Roos. A court in the Nile Delta of Tanta is due Sunday to hear their appeal against the ruling. "This meeting will be limited to the case of the two lawyers," said Mokhtar el-Ashri, a member of the Bar Association Board. "It will also tackle the developments of the crisis and the future of the profession," he added.
