CAIRO: The judicial committee overseeing the Lawyers’ Syndicate elections disbarred Ayman Nour along with former Giza governor Maher El-Guindy and ex-MP and Muslim Brotherhood member Mokhtar Nouh Tuesday because they had been convicted of “dishonorable crimes.
An aide to Nour told Daily News Egypt that the former presidential candidate had received the news only a few hours before heading to Brussels where he addressed the European Parliament. Nour is also traveling for medical treatment.
The committee that is currently running the syndicate had referred the cases of the three to the General Syndicate of Lawyers as well as MP Talaat Al-Sadat and former head of Zamalek Sporting Club Mortada Mansour.
The news that Nour would be disbarred had been making the rounds since his release from a four-year prison sentence but there had been no official confirmation until Tuesday.
At a press conference on the subject last month, Nour had said, “After four years of false imprisonment and illness and oppression, now I cannot work. I have a right to work. If it is a tightening of the noose until strangulation so we don’t do what we are doing, then we will continue doing it.
He went on to say that if the decision to disbar him was confirmed, he would become a florist and set up a kiosk in Tahrir Square.
Nour had also cast doubt on the constitutionality of the law that predicated such a decision in a previous interview with Daily News Egypt.
“This particular article has been around from 1937, and they took it from Italian legislature. Italy canceled it in 1933, even before we adopted it, because it was considered a violation of human rights. Germany canceled it in 1934 and so did France, he said, “This article is not used in Egypt; it is only applied to me. The Egyptian Constitution of 1971 put an end to all this.
