The Administrative Judiciary Court under Counselor 'Abd al-Majīd al-Muqanan on September 10 handed down a ruling authorizing lawyer Khālid 'Alī, Chairman of the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR), to submit a challenge to the Supreme Constitutional Court on the constitutionality of the Article 48 of the military justice law no. 125 of the year 1966.

The defense stated that Article 48 makes military justice authorities the sole party that determines whether a certain crime falls within its jurisdiction or not.

It said that this article clashes with Articles 167 and 183 of the 1971 constitution and Articles 21, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 and 51 of the constitutional declaration issued on March 30, 2011.

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