Adel Younis
Minister of Justice
In office
1975 – 25 April 1976
PresidentAnwar Sadat
Succeeded byAhmed Talat
Personal details
Died25 April 1976
OccupationJurist

Adel Younis (died 25 April 1976) was an Egyptian jurist. He headed the parquet in Alexandria[1] and served as the deputy head justice of the Court of Cessation in Cairo.[2] Then he was named as the head of the Supreme Court of Appeal in Cairo.[1] In 1969 Younis was removed from the office by President Gamal Abdel Nasser together with other 200 judges due to their alleged apposition to the regime.[3] In 1975 Younis was named the minister of justice. He died on 25 April 1976 while serving in the post.[4] Ahmed Talat succeeded him as minister of justice on 2 May.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Mark S. W. Hoyle (September 1983). The mixed courts of Egypt 1875-1949: a study of their development and operation, and their influence on post-war Egyptian law (PhD thesis). SOAS, University of London. p. 336.
  2. ↑ Hearings. Vol. 7. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1966. p. 540.
  3. ↑ Mona El Nahhas (5 April 2016). "Judges await their fate". Masress. Al Ahram Weekly. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  4. 1 2 "Chronology April 16, 1976-August 15, 1976". Middle East Journal. 30 (4): 525. Autumn 1976. JSTOR 4325541.


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