Also yesterday, Egypt's Supreme Judicial Council forced 32 judges into retirement, in addition to 15 others who were retired last week, for refusing to recognize the legality of the military’s ouster of Mohamed Morsi in 2013. The judges have been suspended for the past year pending review by the Supreme Judicial Council. The decision drew immediate criticism from the International Commission for Jurists, which has called for the judges to be reinstated and said the move sends a "chilling message to others who might challenge the ongoing crackdown on fundamental rights and freedoms in Egypt.”
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi fired the country’s top anti-corruption official yesterday. Though Sisi did not give a formal reason for his firing, Hesham Geneina, the country’s senior auditor, was under review for comments made to media in December that corruption cost Egypt $76 billion over the past four years, a figure the State Security Prosecution’s office says is exaggerated.
Also yesterday, Egypt's Supreme Judicial Council forced 32 judges into retirement, in addition to 15 others who were retired last week, for refusing to recognize the legality of the military’s ouster of Mohamed Morsi in 2013. The judges have been suspended for the past year pending review by the Supreme Judicial Council. The decision drew immediate criticism from the International Commission for Jurists, which has called for the judges to be reinstated and said the move sends a "chilling message to others who might challenge the ongoing crackdown on fundamental rights and freedoms in Egypt.”
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