埃及法官抵制穆斯林支持的憲法全民公決

An influential group of Egyptian judges says it will not oversee a December 15 referendum on a new constitution, a Move that could undermine the legitimacy of the charter supported by the nation's Islamist president.

In a statement published Sunday by state news agency MENA, the Judges Club said its members unanimously agreed to boycott the referendum, a voting process that Egyptian judges usually supervise.

Many Egyptian judges went on strike last month to protest President Mohammed Morsi's decree barring courts from challenging his decisions. The judges of Egypt's top court joined them on Sunday, saying they have suspended their work indefinitely because of what they called "psychological and physical pressures."

The judges said they were afraid to enter the Supreme Constitutional Court for a Sunday session in the midst of a rally by hundreds of Islamists outside the building. Mr. Morsi's aides said the protest was peaceful. Many Islamists complain that the top court is biased against them because its judges were appointed by Hosni Mubarak, the longtime anti-Islamist president ousted last year in a popular uprising.

The Supreme Constitutional Court had planned to issue rulings that could have dissolved two Islamist-controlled assemblies -- the panel that drafted the new constitution and the upper house of parliament.埃及一個有影響力的法官組織說，該組織成員將不會監督12月15日舉行的新憲法全民公決。此舉可能會影響埃及伊斯蘭主義總統穆爾西支持的憲法的合法性。

埃及法官俱樂部星期天通過國營媒體中東新聞社發表的一份聲明中說，該俱樂部成員一致同意抵制憲法全民公決。埃及法官通常要監督全民公決投票的過程。

埃及很多法官上個月停止工作，抗議穆爾西禁止法院挑戰其決定的政令。埃及最高法院的法官們星期天也宣佈停止工作。他們說，由於“心理和身體壓力”，他們將無限期地暫停工作。

法官們說，由於數百名伊斯蘭主義者在法院大樓外集會，他們不敢進入最高憲法法院參加星期天的法庭聽證會。穆爾西的助手說，抗議活動是和平的。很多伊斯蘭主義者抱怨說，最高法院法官是穆巴拉克任命的，所以對他們抱有偏見。曾長期執政的前埃及總統穆巴拉克持反伊斯蘭主義立場，在去年的民衆起義中被趕下臺。

埃及最高憲法法院原計劃做出可能導致兩個由伊斯蘭主義者主導的機構被解散，即起草新憲法的委員會和議會上院。