Egypt's law punishes lack of accessibility for challenged persons at schools, work

CAIRO - 24 January 2023: The Egyptian Law of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities punishes by prison those who involved in the lack of accessibility for challenged persons at schools or work.  

 

The law stipulates that “without prejudice to any harsher penalty stipulated in any other law, the crimes stipulated in the following articles shall be punished with the penalties prescribed for them."

 

Article 46 states: Taking into account the provisions of the Child Law promulgated by Law No. 12 of 1996, a person or child with a disability is considered to be at risk in any situation that threatens respect for his personal dignity and autonomy and is discriminated against on the basis of disability, in the following cases:

 

- If the person's security, morals, health or life are endangered.

 

- If a person with a disability is imprisoned or isolated from society without a legal basis, or refrained from medical, rehabilitative, community or legal care.

 

- If a person with a disability is beaten or children were subject to any other means at placement and rehabilitation homes, nurseries and educational institutions, or being sexually assaulted, harmed, threatened or exploited.

 

- If a person with disability undergone therapeutic methods or medical experiments that could harm him, as a person or a child, without the support of the law.

 

- If children or persons with disabilities were disrtibuted to classes on the upper floors of public or private schools without providing access and preparation for their special circumstances.

 

- If children with disabilities were not provided necessary treatment or necessary food for children with mental disabilities, especially in cases of metabolism issues.

 

- Failure to provide spatial, security, and guidance facilities for persons with disabilities in their workplaces, exposing them to violence, humiliation, humiliation, or hatred, and inciting any of that.

 

- Placing persons with disabilities in special institutions to get rid of them because they are persons with disabilities in cases other than those that require such placement.

 

 

Whoever exposes a person with a disability to one of the dangerous situations mentioned in Article 46 of this law shall be punished with imprisonment for a period of no less than six months, and a fine of no less than five thousand pounds and no more than fifty thousand pounds, or one of these two penalties.