Egypt judges announce referendum boycott

CAIRO: Egypt's Judges Club, which represents judges across the country, announced on Sunday that it would not supervise a referendum on a draft constitution, amid a tense standoff between the president and the judiciary.

"It has been agreed by all the judges of Egypt and the Judges Clubs outside the capital not to supervise a referendum on the draft constitution and to boycott it," the head of the Judges Club, Ahmed al-Zind, said in a statement carried by the official MENA news agency.

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