The Subcommittee on Drafting the Criminal Procedure
Code has completed the preparation of a draft of the new Criminal Procedure
Code, which established and amended a number of provisions, most notably
setting a maximum limit on pretrial detention and reducing its duration.
The subcommittee formed to review the draft law submitted by the government amending some provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code held its last meeting, Wednesday headed by MP Ihab Al-Tamawy, undersecretary of the Council’s Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee.
In its meeting, the committee reviewed the final formulations of the articles of the draft law, and the rest of the postponed articles, most notably reducing the period of pretrial detention.
The committee agreed to reduce the duration of pretrial detention to 4 months instead of 6 months for misdemeanors, 12 months instead of 18 months for felonies, and 18 months instead of two years if the penalty prescribed for the crime was life imprisonment or death, and to set a maximum limit for pretrial detention by the lower-level criminal court. The second or the Court of Cassation in crimes punishable by death or life imprisonment to a maximum of two years instead of not restricting the terms.
Following the meeting, Speaker of the House of Representatives Hanafi Jabali, thanked and appreciated the members of the committee for their efforts throughout the committee’s work period, which exceeded 14 months, praising the provisions and precise formulations approved by the committee.
During its work, the committee included some provisions that are established in practice and jurisprudence in the existing law, and which do not conflict with current constitutional and social requirements and givens. In addition, it added new provisions required by the nature of the stage and development that Egyptian society is witnessing in all fields.
Source: Egypt Today
