Egypt president, judges compromising on reform law

By Aya Batrawy
Published April 28, 2013 4:00am ET
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Egypt president, judges compromising on reform law
Egyptian riot police detain a protester during clashes outside the presidential palace in Cairo, Friday, April 26, 2013. Dozens of mostly masked protesters hurled stones and firebombs in clashes with riot police at Egypt's presidential palace in a Cairo suburb. Protests have become a weekly routine in Egypt, as the country has plunged in turmoil during most of the past two years since 2011 uprising which ousted longtime president Hosni Mubarak out of power. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal) | Hussein Tallal

CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian president’s office indicated Sunday a compromise has been reached with the judiciary to defuse an uproar over a proposed law that would have forced out thousands of the country’s most senior judges.

Just three days earlier, the country’s Islamist-led parliament pushed ahead with the disputed bill that would have lowered the retirement age for judges from 70 to 60. That would affect nearly a quarter of Egypt’s 13,000 judges and prosecution officials.

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