Egypt: Judges protest lack of freedom
20.03.2006
Nearly 1,000 Egyptian judges held a half-hour silent protest Friday (March 17) to demonstrate for full judicial independence and against the government's order to interrogate six of their colleagues who criticized recent elections. The justices, wearing the red and green sashes of their profession, gathered outside their professional association, the Judges' Club, in downtown Cairo ahead of an extraordinary general assembly to discuss their grievances.