Type: Administrative cancellation and other administrative claims
Case no.: 9544 Judiciary Year 66
Date: 2013
Court: Administrative judiciary
Department: First
Decision appealed against: The decision of the Minister of Interior Affairs no. 156 year 1964 allowing the use of firearms and ammunitions and the negative decision of the appealed against parties of abstention to issue a decision banning the security forces to use water against peaceful demonstrations and strikes, and banning dispersing demonstrations and strikes with fire and rubber bullets, cartridges or teargas or any other arms that would jeopardize Egyptian lives
First verdict date: 26-3-2013
Appellant: Malek Mostafa Abdul Rahim – Fatma Farouq Mohamed Abed and interfering adverses (Farouq Ibrahim Hussein Ibrahim – Magdi Hassan Hosni Mohamed – Ahmed Mohamed Ali Al Ballassi – Salma Said Abdul Fattah)
The Appealed against: Head of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces – Prime Minister – Minister of Interior Affairs each in
his capacity
Judges: President – Farid Nazih Hakim Tangho
Members: Abdul Magid Ahmed Hassan Al Moqanan and Sami Ramadan Mohamed Darwish
Verdict text: The court ruled of the acceptance of the lawsuit in form and before considering the request of the suspension and cancellation the appealed decision to suspend the lawsuit and the referral of the file without fees to the Supreme Constitutional Court to judge about the constitutionality of the article 102 of the Police Law issued by a presidential decision in law no. 109 year 1971 and the article (1/third) and the article (2) of the decision of the Minister of Interior Affairs no. 156 year 1964 in organizing usage of firearms which included in these articles and allowing the police to disperse demonstrations by using firearms and shooting demonstrators
