Perjury Under Egyptian Law (Legal Alert 170)

Perjury is the intentional falsification of an assertion, to tell the truth, whether written or spoken, on a matter which is essential to a judicial procedure, with the aim of misleading the judicial authority and deviating from the cases true focus, in order to achieve a favorable result for the accused or another third party.

Based on this, testimony is an essential aspect of procedural examination, as it is involved in all stages of the proceedings and is therefore often the basis of the final ruling. 

By nature, witness statements play an essential role as evidence used by a judge during criminal litigation, since they involve material and moral facts that are difficult to prove in writing. It is on this basis that providing false information to the court, is an offense punishable by the Egyptian Penal Code since it could be used to usurp the authority of the courts, which in the long term, may cause the failure of the entire justice system.