- Following President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi’s call for women to join the country’s two main judicial bodies, Egypt has appointed 98 women as judges to the State Council.
- The council and the Public Prosecution are two main judicial bodies in Egypt.
Following President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi’s call for women to join the country’s two main judicial bodies, Egypt has appointed 98 women as judges to the State Council. The council and the Public Prosecution are two main judicial bodies in Egypt. The judges were sworn in before the council’s chief judge in an event in the capital Cairo on 19 th Oct. Since its inception in 1946, the State Council has been exclusively male and until now actively rejected female applicants. Women have been demanding representation for long and have opposed the decisions of the council, arguing that they were discriminated against.
