Cancel the seizure of the funds of 20 non-governmental organizations and associations and raise the names of the people who are prohibited from traveling

Councilor Ali Mukhtar, deputy examining magistrate of the Cairo Court of Appeal, to investigate case 173 of 2011 limited the examination of the examining magistrate’s office to the disposal of various non-governmental organizations and associations, a statement on the results of investigations.

The statement issued on Saturday says that the investigations into the report of the investigative commission on foreign financing of a series of organizations, entities and associations of civil society, which were in charge of the investigation of the investigating judge of the Court of Appeals of El Cairo and sanctioned for the investigation of these events in the aforementioned report, have made several investigating judges. A great effort is made to accurately determine the authenticity of what is attributed to each organization, entity or association under investigation, by collecting information at the disposal of the competent authorities, such as the security services, the ministries of finance and solidarity. , banks and others, and forming technical committees to audit the accounts and financial actions of the organizations, entities and companies under investigation. The papers of the case have reached more than 20 thousand papers to date, and for ten months we began the investigation to complement the efforts of the former investigating judges, and the legal position of several of the investigated organizations is determined.

The papers included many facts from different people with no connection between them – there is no unity of cause, subject or persons – and some of these incidents had been fulfilled and they were prepared to give an opinion, so we had to decide on them without delay until complete investigations on the remaining facts.

We have completed the investigations of 20 organizations, entities and societies, and due to the different legal positions and the different legal and evidentiary nature, we decided to issue an order not to initiate a criminal case against six of them for not being responsible for the crime.

INTERNEWS NET WORK (IFE), the Yalla Nashrak Association for Community Development, the Al-Naqib Foundation for Training and Support for Democracy, the Muslim Family Association in Damanhour and the Al-Amal Charitable Association in Minya.

We also issued an order not to prosecute the criminal case before fourteen of them for lack of evidence, and they are Trust Arrow Association, Middle East Human Rights and Development Organization, Aid in Aid for Egypt, Human Rights Association Human Resources for Prisoner Assistance, the Development Resource Center and the Egyptian Center for Development and Democratic Studies. The National Center for Human Rights, the Sadat Association for Community Development and Care: the Coptic Orphan Organization, the Egyptian Democratic Institute, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the Egyptian Center for Human Rights, the Future Generation Association and the Center Maat of Constitutional and Legal Studies.

The statement said: “Due to its implications, especially the lifting of the names of those who are included in this matter of ours from the lists of those prohibited from traveling and the expected arrival, as well as the lists of prohibitions to dispose of their money. , either liquid or transferred with respect to the facts included in this matter of our order without prejudice to other facts. It may be investigated, either in the present case or in other cases. “

Given that what was included in the report of the investigating commission originally concerned some institutions of civil society, it should be noted that we believe that civil society is part of the engine of sustainable development and is indispensable to support and approve noble concepts, such as solidarity and social peace, which do not bear good results without an active and effective role for civil society, provided that its role is within a correct and unlimited legal framework and in accordance with the legal controls established by the legislator.

There is no question about what controls are imposed or what measures are taken to protect the sovereignty of the homeland and its territorial integrity and unity, as long as those controls and these procedures have the correct basis of the Egyptian constitution and law, and are even guaranteed. by the constitutions and laws of all countries, so the matter is not heresy.

Considering that the Egyptian judiciary, in its capacity as one of the three authorities, is responsible for establishing the pillars of justice, and its responsibility is assigned to two main axes: the first of which is to ensure the rule of law, through the implementation of the correction of the law on what is considered a violation of national sovereignty, and the second is to prevent people from being unfairly accused. Overseeing the correct application of the law, all by examining the facts, with sufficient scrutiny, weighing the evidence and then discarding the papers as evidenced by the investigations.