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The State’s Administrative Court has adjourned until June 15 its session considering a lawsuit filed by Muhammad Ahmed Husayn (known as Hamām al-Kammūnī), the prime defendant in the Naj‘ Hammādī massacre, which resulted in the death of six Christians and a Muslim policeman and the injury of nine others.

 

In his petition Kammūnī demands the cancellation of Public Prosecutor ‘Abd al-Majīd Mahmūd’s decision referring him and two other defendants to the Supreme State Security Court (Emergency), demanding the trial be transferred to the Criminal Court.

 

Commenting on the decision, Nabīh el-Wahsh, a lawyer for Kammūnī, said the trial of the defendants in the case, which is a normal criminal case, before the emergency courts deny them the right to appear before their natural judge who hears their case carefully, where the criminal court judge is aware that he is subject to surveillance by the Court of Cassation.