25 April 2017: the Court of Cassation dismissed the appeal made by the Islamic preacher Fadl Almawla Hassan against his death sentence in “Alexandria Events” case after he had been arrested 3 years ago from his workplace.

Fadl was accused of killing Mina Aziz Rafaat, a taxi driver during a demonstration that followed the dispersal of the Rabaa’ Al-Adawiya sit-in strike on the 15th of August 2013.

The court upheld the death sentence of Sheikh Fadl Al-Mawla and rejected the appeals of other 16 defendants in the same case.

The Public Prosecutor, in his non-binding advisory opinion, recommended the appeal to be accepted in form and dismissed in sustances and the death sentences of the appellants to be upheld. If carried out, it would be the ninth execution related to an incident of political violence since the military removed the former president in 2013. At least 10 other people currently face execution in connection with alleged political violence, six of them sentenced in a regular court and four in a military court, after appeals courts confirmed their death penalties earlier in June. (Source: http://ecrfeg.org/en/2017/04/25/court-cassation-upheld-death-sentence-sheikh-fadl-al-mawla/)