ACIJLP address an urgent call to the Libyan President

to stop the execution of an Egyptian person tomorrow

Within the frame of the Center’s follow up of the 24 Egyptian citizens’ case in Libya, who are facing execution penalty issued by the Libyan judiciary, the Center addressed its second call to the Libyan President in order to stop the execution of one of the Egyptian citizens who is waiting for his execution tomorrow on Sunday May 28, 2007, his name is Emad Abd El-Wahed Mohamed Ali.

The center noted in its letter to what the Libyan President issued last year, when he issued directions related to the abolition of death penalty in Libya, and the Libyan Judiciary Council’s approval on these directions.

Worth mentioning that the Center called up on the Libyan President to the execution of the up mentioned citizen, in order to complete the conciliation procedures with the victims’ families, specially that some civil society institutions in Egypt and Libya have proceed taken the needed conciliation procedures.

In the view of the fact that the Libyan Government is tending to abolish the death penalty, the Center hopes that those convicted Egyptian persons should benefit from this tendency, which will put Libya in the level of the developed countries that abolish death penalty, as it is one of the cruel penalties.

The Center hopes that the Libyan President would response to these calls to stop the death penalty against 24 Egyptian citizens, in addition it hopes that the Egyptian Ministry of foreign affairs should intensify its efforts to protect Egyptian’s right of life out side Egypt.