The President of Egypt’s Judges’ Club Ahmed Al-Zind has been sworn in as Egypt’s new Justice Minister, reported state media Al-Ahram. Al-Zind replaces Mahfouz Saber as Minister of Justice after Saber had declared that the sons of garbage collectors could not become judges, stirring outrage across Egypt. According to Al-Ahram, Al-Zind swore the oath of office in the presence of Egypt’s Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb. A Morsi Critic As head of the Judges’ Club, Al-Zind had been an outspoken critic of deposed President Morsi in 2012 and 2013. Following Morsi’s decision to hold a constitutional referendum amid opposition from the National Salvation Front, a group of opposition parties during Morsi’s rule, Al-Zind had announced the Judges’ Club would not supervise the referendum. The Judges’ Club opposition to Morsi in 2012 resulted in an attack on Al-Zind that left him in hospital. Al-Zind was attacked by a number of people while leaving the Judges’ Club on December 24 and was hospitalized after an injury under his left eye. In 2013, Al-Zind had also urged military action be taken against Ethiopia for ‘threatening Egypt’s water supply’ by building the Renaissance Dam. In…
Egypt Appoints Muslim Brotherhood Critic Al-Zind As New Justice Minister
May 20, 2015
