United Nations

CAT/C/EGY/Q/5/Corr.1

Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Distr.: General

30 July 2010

English only

Committee against Torture

Forty-fourth session

26 April–14 May 2010

List of issues prior to the submission of the fifth periodic report of Egypt (CAT/C/EGY/5)

Specific information on the implementation of articles 1 to 16 of the Convention, including with regard to the Committee’s previous recommendations

Corrigendum

Article 2

The second line of paragraph 19 should read:

that an order from a superior cannot be invoked as a justification for torture.

Article 16

In the fifth line of paragraph 51, for Law 10/961 readLaw 10/1961

In the fourth line of paragraph 54, for Law 82 of 2002 read Law 84 of 2002