CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi appointed on Wednesday a new chief for a judicial body that defied him by blocking a controversial border treaty with Saudi Arabia, in what some judges said was an assault on judicial independence.
Sisi issued a decree appointing Judge Ahmed Abo al-Azm as Chief Justice of the Council of State, a judicial body that provides the government and parliament with legal advice and functions as the administrative judiciary, effective July 20.
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