The Public Ministry during the Al-Sawi era: How much noise …!

Cairo | About a year ago, Councilor Hamada El-Sawy was sworn in as a prosecutor in Egypt for a four-year, non-renewable term, in accordance with recent constitutional amendments. A long road in the judiciary for more than three decades, which ended with the man sitting at the headquarters of the Public Ministry, who heads the prosecution apparatus, and the constitution and the law authorize him to investigate the President of the Republic in case that the latter is accused of high treason or constitutional violation. Al-Sawi was directly elected by the president; Contrary to the stipulation that the Attorney General was appointed by the “Supreme Judicial Council”, the Council decided not to send names to the Presidency, so Sisi chose Al-Sawy, on the basis of security nominations, out of thousands of judges who meet constitutional requirements, including being one of the vice presidents of a court. Cassation, presidents of courts of appeal or deputy attorneys general.

Al-Sawy decided to raise the motto of “virtue” in his work, trying to export the Public Ministry as “protector of morals” before public opinion. Although it opened on social networks by activating an official page of the Public Ministry there, it worked to promote the independence of investigators from the security authority, and the commitment of the Public Ministry to protect witnesses who reported violations or even witnesses as evidence in some incidents … But the reality was different. Today it can be stated that the Attorney General, who is supposed to leave office in 2023, does not have the capacity to carry out any of the claims. Even with respect to some of the issues that the communication sites occupy, Al-Sawy’s move is influenced by what is being raised, in light of his constant demands that cases not be addressed on these sites to preserve the rights of the oppressed.

El-Sawy ignores what serves the opposition and welcomes what serves the regime

Likewise, the advisor treats the Public Ministry as if it were his inheritance, setting priorities according to what he deems appropriate, ignoring what serves the opposition, and accepting what serves the system, actions that can be monitored ignoring the Prosecutor’s Office to face to the distortion and abuse that are exposed to figures affiliated with the opposition, in exchange for making quick decisions against those who “commit abuses” to the system, whatever it may be. In political cases, the method of prosecution has changed to address what the Interior Ministry has not changed; As the decisions of preventive detention are expanded, and the renewal of the detention of the accused, based on inaccurate investigations that continue, especially those issued by the State Security Prosecutor’s Office against some opposition voices. In this context, it seems remarkable that the lawyers are afflicted by the intention of the Prosecutor’s Office to be harsh with the accused, as well as by the inhumane conditions for the investigations, ignoring the requests of the lawyers to sign medical examinations to the accused and the continuation of the policy of arbitrary detention and preventive detention until further notice, all of which are policies followed by the Attorney General who prefers to stay away from the media, content with statements that he publishes on “Facebook” in public cases, asking the public trust him fully as “the people’s advocate.”
Regarding witness protection, unlike the advertiser, the prosecution was unable to protect any of the witnesses in important cases. In the case of the rape of a girl in a major hotel years ago, photographs and videos were leaked to several prosecution witnesses, after their phones were confiscated and they were blackmailed with what they were carrying. Thus, Al-Sawy diverted the case of a rape incident that involved the children of high dignitaries, so that some of the witnesses in it were involved in moral deviations, which made the case adopted by the National Council de la Mujer lost its usefulness, at a time when the Council was silent, and the Attorney General did not issue any explanation except Decisions to arrest and imprison suspects, without referring to the clips and photographs that came out of the witnesses’ phones after they were taken into custody. In another case as well, and despite Muhammad Siddiq’s statements about the murder of his friend by four police secretaries after having a dispute with one of them, the family of the deceased, Islam al-Australian, was subjected to threats and violence. by the security forces that the Public Ministry did not intervene or investigate. Although official complaints were filed about the abuse of family rights, and an attempt to force her to close the file, as if the death were the natural result of a fight between the deceased and other people.

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