Tayeb Louh Attacks Criticism On Judges, Judgments Of Justice

Justice Minister, Tayeb Louh, strongly criticized what he called the “opponent” to justice reforms, who denied – according to him – all that was accomplished in recent years, especially Farouk Ksantni, the former head of the National Advisory Commission for the Promotion of Human Rights, who attacks the journalists due to the measure of “remand”.

Tayeb Louh warned: “Commenting on the final judgments that are issued by the judges is an act that is punishable by law”.

Justice Minister, said on Monday, on his arrival at the Committee on Legal Affairs and Freedoms of the National People’s Assembly, for the presentation of the draft law of the powers of the Council of State and its organization and work, that the courts deal daily sensitive and serious cases, but in silence and without advertisement in the media, without giving specifics about the quality of these cases, even though they are linked to senior state officials who are investigated after every scandal in their sectors.

A member of the Legal Affairs Committee and the head of the Liberal Bloc, Lamine Asmani, told Echorouk that Tayeb Louh panel strongly defended the judges, and accused some jurists of saying that nothing was achieved in justice. 

“It is unfair to deny the reforms in the sector in the recent years”, pointing out that there is a political orientation to build the rule of law and the independence of the justice.

“Justice Minister is also enraged in his response to the MPs’ inquiries, from comments that are made every time by some jurists”, referring to Farouk Ksantini, who recently criticized, on the newspapers’ pages,  the”preventive detention”, asserting that it was excessive and there was abuse by some judges in its application.

“The final court rulings should not be suspended, but before that the legal procedures are clear and there are mechanisms for appeal and”, he added.

On the other hand, the Justice Minister responded to the concerns that are raised by some of the deputies of the Legal Affairs Committee regarding the instruction of the Housing Minister, in which the governors called for the necessity of exploiting the “unproductive” agricultural real estate tools for the completion of supported public housing projects. 

“The law is clear and the constitution stipulates the need to protect the agricultural lands. Public Prosecution must mobilize a public invitation in an urgent manner when it receives complaints from an institution about the encroachment on agricultural lands”.

In the same context, Echorouk said that the government is required to give details of the text of the instruction that is issued by the Housing Ministry, and to clarify it so as not to violate the inviolability of agricultural lands under the pretext of the completion of housing for citizens.