Egypt launches new project to hold pre-trial detention hearings ‘virtually’

Egypt launches new project to hold pre-trial detention hearings ‘virtually’

CAIRO – 21 October 2020: Egypt's Supreme Standing Committee for Human Rights confirmed on Wednesday the launching of a new project that will allow holding pre-trial detention proceedings virtually, aiming to preserve and guarantee the rights of the detainees.

The virtual proceedings will allow direct communication between the judge, the detained in his/her place of detention, and the latter's lawyer, through a secured audio-video network connecting a number of courts and prisons, according to a press statement by the supreme committee, which further clarified that the project was launched on October 18, marking an unprecedented step in the history of the Egyptian judicial system.

“Establishing an effective and secure mechanism of communication