Ministry of Justice (Egypt)

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Arab Republic of Egypt
Ministry of Justice
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Emblem of Egypt
Agency overview
Jurisdiction Government of Egypt
Headquarters Cairo
Agency executive
  • Mohamed Hossam Abdel-Rahim, Minister

The Ministry of Justice is the justice ministry of the government of Egypt. Its headquarters are in Cairo.

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History

Before the governorship of Egypt was assigned to Muhammad Ali Pasha in 1805, the Ottoman Sultan in Istanbul sent 24 Beys to the Turkish governor in Egypt to oversee major affairs in Egypt. During the reign of Muhammad Ali Pasha, the (Diwan/Office of the Governor or Khedive) was established. Its powers combined legislative, executive, and judicial authority.

It was entrusted with maintaining public order in the city, enacting regulations and laws, and adjudicating disputes between citizens and foreigners alike, particularly in matters related to inheritance and major crimes. During the reign of Khedive Ismail, the Ministry of Justice (then called the Supervision of Justice) was established in 1878 pursuant to a Khedive's high decree issued in August 1878. This resulted from a change in the litigation system and an attempt to reorganize the judiciary, transforming it from the Justice Courts to the Mixed Courts, which were established in 1875.

Approximately 26 Supervisions served in the Ministry of Justice from its inception until 1914, when the names of the Supervisions were changed to Ministries.

Profile

On 17 June 2014 Mahfouz Saber was appointed minister of justice. [1]

On 20 May 2015 Ahmed El-Zend was appointed as minister of justice [2] and was reappointed on 19 September 2015, [3] but on 14 March 2016, he was removed from his post by Egyptian Prime Minister, Sherif Ismail, for making controversial comments. [4]

On 23 March Mohamed Hossam Abdel Rahim was named minister of justice. [5]

List of ministers

See also

References

  1. ↑ "BREAKING: New government swears in". The Cairo Post. 17 June 2014.
  2. ↑ Samaan, Magdy (20 May 2015). "Egypt's new justice minister called for hardline Sharia". The Telegraph.
  3. ↑ "Egypt's new Cabinet: What changed and what didn't?". Mada Masr. 19 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "Egypt dismisses minister after 'prophet' comments". Al Jazeera. 14 March 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  5. ↑ "Who's who: Meet Egypt's 10 new ministers in Sherif Ismail's cabinet". Ahram Online. 23 March 2016.


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