Aswat Masriya (Cairo)

Egypt: Nation's Attorney General Withdraws Resignation

20 December 2012
Photo: Amr Emam/IRIN
Salafist Muslim protesters in Egypt.

Egypt's Attorney General presented a request to the High Judicial Council on Thursday asking to rescind his resignation.

Attorney General Talaat Ibrahim, appointed by President Mohamed Mursi, resigned from his post on Monday evening after hundreds of public prosecutors staged a sit-in by his office demanding that he steps down.

Egypt's Justice Minister Ahmed Mekki has said that the acceptance of the Attorney General's resignation is in the hands of the High Judicial Council.

The High Judicial Council convened an urgent session on Thursday during which it received Ibrahim's request and referred it to the Justice Minister.

  • Comment

Copyright © 2012 Aswat Masriya. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). To contact the copyright holder directly for corrections — or for permission to republish or make other authorized use of this material, click here.

AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 130 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views. Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica.

Comments Post a comment

InFocus

Egyptian A-G Withdraws Resignation

picture

The nation’s attorney general requested the High Judicial Council to rescind his resignation. Read more »