8 December 2019: human rights sources revealed that the Egyptian authorities carried out the death sentence by hanging of three people early Thursday, who were convicted in cases in which they were accused of “terrorist crimes”.

Egyptian and international human rights organizations accuse the Egyptian authorities of issuing hundreds of death sentences in trials that lack the most basic rules of justice, in addition to forcing many detainees to confess to crimes they did not commit under torture.

According to human rights sources, the sentences were implemented at dawn last Thursday against Ibrahim Ismail who was sentenced to death in four cases, the latest of which is the case known as “Helwan Church”, Muhammad Jamal Hindawi, who is sentenced to death in the case known as “Embassy of Niger”, and Abdul Rahman Abdul Rahim Odeh Convicted of belonging to the “Sinai Province” organization.

The sources stated that the authorities informed the families of those mentioned to implement the death sentence in them, and asked them to come to collect their bodies, while a source from the families of one of those executed confirmed that it was a surprise and there was no previous information about the imminence of the execution, which shocked them.

In January 2018, an Egyptian court sentenced Muhammad Jamal Hindawi and four years of life to death in the case of the attack on the Niger embassy, which local media said at the time had resulted in the death of a Central Security Forces soldier and the injury of others.

Another court also ordered the death of Ibrahim Ismail after he was accused of attacking the Helwan Church in late 2017 and killing a number of its visitors, according to the ruling, which the defendant later denied, and said he was forced to confess to these charges.

Finally, a report issued by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (civil society) revealed that, since January 2011, the Egyptian authorities have issued 2726 death sentences in various cases, including 717 in 2018.

According to the report’s data, death sentences in Egypt have escalated widely since 2013, as 2011 witnessed 123 death sentences and reached 509 in 2014, before reaching its peak in 2018 with 717 death sentences.

Since the late President Mohamed Morsi was toppled by a military coup in the summer of 2013, the Egyptian judiciary has expanded the death sentences against opponents, issuing nearly 1,500 death sentences.

From 2014 until February 2019, the Egyptian authorities executed 42 people in cases of political dimensions, and about 80 other people are awaiting execution of their death sentence at any time, after their sentences have become final.

 

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