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  • June 19, 2008
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A Lawsuit Demanding Official Release of MB Military Tribunal Verdicts

A Lawsuit Demanding Official Release of MB Military Tribunal Verdicts

 
Lawyers of MB second deputy chairman Khairat El Shater and the 16 other convicted MBs have filed an appeal to the Administrative Court demanding immediate release of the official copy of April 15 verdicts.
The MB defense panel says the ruling of April 15 in the case no 2, 2007, is practically null and void according to the law, since Article 312 of the penal code annuls a verdict if it was not followed in a period of at least 30 days by a formal announcement of the causes. 
Lawyers indicated that the verdict deprived the contesters of their constitutional and legal right to appeal it. They asserted that refusing to hand the defendants a copy of the verdict for more than two months after its release indicates that the rulings were passed on political basis.
“Two months have elapsed after the verdicts, but they haven’t been ratified yet. This denies the contesters the opportunity to challenge the verdict. The law states that an appeal can only be filed within 60 days after the verdict is ratified. But the Military Law doesn’t set certain period for ratifying the verdict. Therefore, such a verdict may remain without ratification to prevent the contesters from challenging the rulings,” chief lawyer of the defense panel Abdul-Monem Abdul-Maqsoud told Ikhwanweb.
The defense panel of MB members in the latest military tribunal case has requested the military prosecutor general to hand them an official copy of the verdicts last month, but he refused claiming that the case is still in the stage of ratification.