The burial ceremony took place after performing the funeral prayer for Farid El-Deeb at the Sayeda Zeinab Mosque in the center of the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
El-Deeb died on Tuesday morning at his home at the age of 79, according to what his daughter, broadcaster Hanan El-Deeb, told Sky News Arabia.
Al-Deeb was suffering from leukemia and fell ill, as a result of which he was admitted to the hospital and then discharged, but his condition worsened in the past few days and the doctors were visiting him at home.
Farid El-Deeb was born in 1943 and graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1963 with a very good grade, and was appointed as an agent of the Public Prosecution until 1969, when he was dismissed with others in what was known as the “judges massacre” at the time.
Refusal to return to court
Although El-Deeb obtained a ruling to return to his work in the Public Prosecution Office, he made an exciting decision and refused to return and preferred to become a lawyer, as if he knew that it would make him a star comparable to the movie stars who had already imitated him in their films.
Al-Deeb worked in the Ministry of Labor and then the League of Arab States, the International Organization for Combating Crime, and his journey in the legal profession began in 1971.
Al-Deeb was known for his controversial and even shocking history until the last days of his life. He took over the defense of defendants whom no one else accepted or whom they trusted only in him.
Connect with the big names
The name of El-Deeb was associated with the defense of famous Egyptians such as the international writer Naguib Mahfouz, writer Mahmoud El-Saadani, actress Yousra, actor Thanaa Shafea, dancers Najwa Fouad and Fifi Abdo, singer Medhat Saleh, businessman Hossam Aboul Fotouh and businesswoman Alia El-Ayouti.
Al-Deeb was a lawyer for the family of the late President Mohamed Anwar Sadat in the defamation case brought by his family against a newspaper that accused the late of treason.
El-Deeb defended the Israeli spy, Azzam Azzam, who was arrested in Egypt on charges of espionage. El-Deeb lost the case. Azzam was convicted and imprisoned from 1996 until his release in 2004.
He took over the defense of the late Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons after 2011.
last case
The latest controversial case in which El-Deeb volunteered to defend the accused was the case of the murder of Naira Ashraf, a student at Mansoura University, who was slaughtered by her colleague and sentenced to death by the court.
But El-Deeb appealed the ruling, stressing that there were errors in it, which caused a large wave of controversy.
Al-Deeb died before a session was scheduled to consider the appeal and to present his pleading in the case.
Throughout his history in law, El-Deeb turned into the most expensive in terms of fees among the more than 400,000 lawyers affiliated with the Egyptian Bar Association, yet he lost many cases or received reduced sentences for the accused.
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