The Human Rights Association for the Assistance of Prisoners Campaign

Hand in Hand ... Egypt without Torture

  Cairo: 5 / 5 /2004
 

 The Human Rights Association for the Assistance of Prisoners (HRAAP) organizes its ninth and tenth training course of the series of training courses for lawyers entitled

“The Right to Have a Safe Body”

through 2004, with the co-operation of Bar Syndicate and under the auspices of Mr. Sameh Aashour “Representative of lawyers and head of Arab Lawyers Union”.

HRAAP is holding the ninth and tenth training course in Lawyers Club in Al-Behaira, on Friday and Sunday 13-14/5/2004 respectively, continuing the series of training courses for lawyers entitled “The Right to Have a Safe Body”, during 2004 with the co-operation of Bar Syndicate and under the auspices of Mr. Sameh Aashour “representative of lawyers and head of Arab Lawyers Union”. This course is specified for lawyers from Al-Behara city. In addition, HRAAP decided to organize some of these courses out of Cairo to enable lawyers from other regions to benefit from them and to achieve the aim of this training equally among lawyers of different parts of Egypt. It is worthy saying that the lecturers in these courses are a selection of masters in law, legal medicine, human rights activists and specialists in psychological and legal medicine. 

These courses aim at providing the trainees with legal and legislative information concerning the right to have a safe body, in addition to the international charters that assert this right, and to what extent this right is practiced and applied under the Egyptian legal and judicial system. Moreover, these courses aim at providing the trainees some practical experiences about the way of fact-finding and monitoring concerning the violation of this right.

 The human rights association for the assistance of prisoners