President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi underscored the importance of reducing the maximum durations for pretrial detention, emphasizing the necessity to maintain its preventive nature as a measure necessitated by investigations, without it evolving into a punitive action.
Sisi also highlighted the need for activating the application of diverse alternative pretrial detention measures, said a statement by Presidential Spokesman Ahmed Fahmy.
Furthermore, the president stressed the significance of providing financial and moral compensation to rectify the harm caused to individuals who have been subjected to wrongful pretrial detention.
Sisi made the remarks following the reception of recommendations from the National Dialogue regarding pretrial detention and criminal justice.
Sisi has directed referring the recommendations to the government and ordered prompt actions to implement the agreed-upon ones, responding to the diverse and specialized discussions of the National Dialogue, the statement added.
Source: Egypt Today
