ECC 2220/2000
Type
Case
Court
Egypt Court of Cassation
Jurisdiction
Egypt
Taxonomy
General Criminal Procedure, Prisons, Custodial Institutions & Service of Sentence, Damages in Personal Injury, General Personal Injury, Torture, Cruel and Unusual punishment, Appeals
Copyright
LexisNexis
Decision date
15 Nov 2000
Catchwords
Evidence – Witness – Imprisonment – Personal Injury – Unjust Punishment – Torture – Appeal
This case involved a claim for compensation by an individual who stated they had been subject to torture in prison. Key issues included whether the appeal document was invalid as it had not been notified in the appropriate way and the status of witnesses where there was not evidence of whether they had been in the same prison at the same time.
Background
A claimant filed a case against defendants before the court requesting the defendants to pay him 300000 Egyptian Pounds as compensation. The claimant said that he was detained and tortured in 1954 and 1965 in a prison which belonged to the last two defendants.
The court dismissed the case against the first defendant because it was filed against an irrelevant party. The court ruled that the second and third defendants should pay the claimant 5000 Egyptian Pounds for compensation.
The defendants appealed the ruling before the court of appeal. The court dismissed the appealed ruling and the case.
Decision