We came to a day in which issuing “Communiqués” became a way of life among Egyptian people, and the prosecutor general office goes important as well as easier (in providing services) than the immigration office or the health bureau or even the Guidance Bureau of “Muslim Brotherhood”.
Based on the proverb “early bird catches the worm”, the citizen has to cut himself to issue a communiqué first before his foe does. Nowadays, the newspapers present us every day with torrents of unique news that can be scenarios in the 1960s films. For instance, a citizen issued a communiqué against the Constituent Assembly to draft the constitution and Dr. Mohamed Morsi to write up an item in the constitution that provides for establishing Islamic Caliphate pursuant to the holy books. While other volunteer citizens, or sometimes they get orders, issue communiqué against TV anchors; believing that they insult the president and disturb the public security.
I can’t deny that the citizen has the right to issue a communiqué at any time, as it may have real facts need investigations. But what we are witnessing nowadays is torrents of malicious complaints that aim to liquidate or to rise to fame and appear in talk shows.
According to judiciary sources, a communiqué is being filed every 10 minutes against political factions or figures over the last two years, but 95% of which turned out to be false.
Lawyers who file these communiqués became famous, followed by media and solicited by many clients. Some of them are affiliated to specific political currents and parties which believe that “the best defense is a good offense” and that Islam can be used as a pretext to attract supporters to their cause.
Accordingly, the crisis of slow pace of litigation has intensified by the vast number of communiqués, delaying the adjudication of many more important lawsuits.
Complaints also devour the truth among this unclear climate which does not differentiate between the accused and the innocent. In addition, we find the mass media use their tools to highlight those dramas resulting in labeling some figures intentionally and then they detect the truth after time goes.
Our society lacks the social responsibility towards its nations and individuals despite the great ethics emerged in the aftermath of the revolution.
Consequently, a number of judges in Egypt has worked on reaching some effective solutions aiming to rationalize the daily excessive amounts of communiqués filed. The judges suggested that the petitioner shall stick to one certain authority in order to submit his complaint.
If the complaint filed by the petitioner prove patently malicious having been put forward so as to attempt to defame the name or character of certain people, it would then be dropped immediately before being referred to the court. The complaint shall be dropped before being reviewed by the country’s watchdogs; the prosecution, the Central Auditing Organization or the Administrative Control Authority.
All those proposed solutions shall come into effect by the power of a law enacted by the country’s officials. Otherwise, Egypt would never manage to restore the state of law which was murdered by politicians’ burning ambitions and parties’ conflicts. Things are turning much worse in Egypt. If two citizens in street ever had a fight, one of them can file a communiqué with one hand tied behind his foe’s back.
