Egyptian legislation on the compulsory treatment of persons with psychiatric disorders: the old and the new

Moody Magdy Zaky

doi:10.1192/S1749367600000576

Egyptian legislation on the compulsory treatment of persons with psychiatric disorders: the old and the new

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018

Moody Magdy Zaky

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Moody Magdy Zaky*: Affiliation:
Ministry of Health, Cairo, Egypt, email moodyzaky@me.com

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Compulsory admission to and treatment in psychiatric facilities have recently been brought into the spotlight by both psychiatrists and the media in Egypt. Interventions of this kind have always inherently involved deprivations of liberty and infringements on privacy. The debate around this issue acquired considerable heat after it was joined by the legislatures during the discussion of a Bill in Parliament. The Parliamentary Committee for Constitutional and Legislative Affairs questioned the constitutionality of the process of compulsory detention and requested more robust safeguards to protect the rights of persons with mental illness. The new Bill was passed by the Egyptian Parliament on 26 April 2009 and was due to come into force once ratified by the President and published in the Egyptian Gazette, expected in May.

Type: Thematic Paper
Information: International Psychiatry , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , July 2009 , pp. 57 - 58

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