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4-yr-old Sentenced To Life Imprisonment by Macclane(m): 4:22pm On Mar 01, 2016 |
Ahmed Mansour Karni, a 4-year old child, will
be spending the rest of his life in prison
following a court ruling in western Cairo on
Tuesday. The little boy was convicted in
absentia for several charges, including murder,
reports Ventures Africa.
Going by the timeline of events that led to the
alleged crimes the youngster is being
convicted for, Karni was about 2-years old at
the time, as they occurred two years ago
during the riots and demonstrations of January
3 2014. But his name was on a list of over a
hundred people “wanted” for murder,
disturbance of the peace and damaging state
property.
Prior to the ruling, a defense attorney, Faisal al-
Saud, who said that Karni’s name ended on
the list by mistake, presented the child’s birth
certificate to the court, but it appears the
material was not transferred and that the
presiding judge did not review the case.
“The child, Ahmed Mansour Karni’s birth
certificate was presented after state security
forces added his name to the list of accused,
but then the case was transferred to the
military court and the child was sentenced in
absentia in an ensuing court hearing,” said the
lawyer.
Although Karni’s birth certificate proves that
he was born in September 2012, the court
indictment states that the child is guilty of
murder – four counts, attempted murder –
eight counts, threatening security forces and
vandalizing property belonging to the Egyptian
Health Administration and vehicles belonging
to security forces. How can a two-year old
commit these crimes?
In response to Karni’s ruling, Egyptians took to
social media blasting the government and the
clearly dysfunctional legal system, accusing
them of corruption and injustice. An angry
Egyptian lawyer, Mohammed Abu Huraira, said
that the court decisions can’t be appealed; he
issued a response to the ridiculous judgement
saying, “On the eve of injustice and madness in
Egypt, a four-year old child was sentenced to
life imprisonment. He is accused of
disturbance, damage to property and murder.
The Egyptian scales of justice are not
reversible. There is no justice in Egypt. No
reason. Logic committed suicide a while ago.
Egypt went crazy. Egypt is ruled by a bunch of
lunatics.”
A history of unfair trials
When former army chief, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi,
was elected president in 2014, he made a
pledge to the UN General Assembly to uphold
judicial independence, freedom of expression,
and the rule of law but, in practice, el-Sisi has
failed to walk the walk. Instead, his
government extended the jurisdiction of
military courts to try civilians and gave room
for human rights violations by security forces.
According to Amnesty International, the
Egyptian judicial system is deeply flawed.
Mansour Karni is not the first child to receive
such an unfair and unjust judgement, courts
throughout Egypt sentence children to life
imprisonment and even death in contravention
of both international and Egyptian law.
Hundreds of activists have also been sentenced
to death after unfair trials on false charges.
Judges fail to follow due judicial processes, as
in the case of little Ahmed Mansour Karni, with
some trials proceeding in the absence of the
defendants and their lawyers. “In many cases,
courts convicted defendants despite an
absence of substantive evidence against them.
The Public Prosecution, increasingly, did not
seek to determine individual criminal
responsibility, instead bringing identical
charges against groups of accused and relied
heavily on reports and testimonies by police
and security forces…” |
Re: 4-yr-old Sentenced To Life Imprisonment by ajokebelle(f): 4:36pm On Mar 01, 2016 |
Really bad. Small boy. What does he know. The person that added his name to the list is not an I.diot. |
Re: 4-yr-old Sentenced To Life Imprisonment by tsephanyah(f): 4:45pm On Mar 01, 2016 |
really |
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