The Egyptian Code of Criminal Procedure is the law that collects the legal rules that define the forms of the crime, the penalty for violating it, and the rules for searching for the perpetrator, investigating him, trying him, issuing a sentence, and implementing it. The first criminal procedure law appeared in Egypt in 1875 under the name "The Criminal Investigation Law", which was taken from the French law issued in 1810, and was applied to mixed courts. Then the Civil Criminal Investigation Law was issued in 1883 to apply to civil courts, and it was amended in 1904. Following the abolition of foreign concessions in 1937, A new Criminal Investigation Law was issued in 1949. As for the current Code of Criminal Procedure, it was issued in October 1950, and it has been subject to many amendments until the present time.
