{"id":337,"date":"2012-11-30T09:46:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T09:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2012-11-30T09:46:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T09:46:35","slug":"egypts-top-courts-suspend-work-in-protest-at-mursi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Egypt’s top courts suspend work in protest at Mursi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Egypt’s Cassation Court and the country’s most important appeals court said on Wednesday they would suspend their work pending a ruling on the constitutionality of President Mohamed Mursi’s decree granting him immunity from judicial review. (from yahoo.com)<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“The Cassation Court will suspend its work starting today,” the court’s vice chairman, Abdel Nasser Abu al-Wafa, said after a meeting of the court’s top officials.<\/p>\n

Khaled Abdellah, a judge in the Cairo and Giza Appeals Court, said after a similar meeting that his court would also suspend its work “except in cases related to corruption and personal laws”.<\/p>\n

There were chaotic scenes in both meetings as judges, divided over the Constitutional Court’s latest statement, argued over what to do.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the Supreme Constitutional Court, which declared the Islamist-led parliament void earlier this year, said on Wednesday that it felt under attack by the president.<\/p>\n

“We did not find the Constitutional Court’s statement of simply condemning President Mursi’s decree enough,” Abu al-Wafa told Reuters after the meeting. “We are deciding on the next step after suspending work.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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