The Egyptian Senate approved on Sunday a bill to amend the Disabled Persons Act to counter the crime of bullying against people with special needs, the privately owned al-Watan newspaper reported on Sunday. The Senate approved the proposal submitted by parliament member Hossam al-Khouly, the head of the Nation’s Future Party’s Senate Bloc, to toughen current penalties in the draft law submitted by MP Mohamed al-Sallab and over 60 other members. If the crime involved perpetrators from both categories (relative and not related), the minimum penalty will be doubled. Repeat offenders will have the penalty’s minimum-maximum limits doubled. This came during the plenary session of the Senate on Sunday to discuss the report of the Constitutional and Legislative Committee of the Senate, on a bill amending some provisions of Law #10 of 2018 regarding the rights of people with special needs.

Source: Egypt Independent April 05, 2021 13:07 UTC