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03 Jun
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Tunisia extends state of emergency by one month

3 June 2019: Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi has extended the national state of emergency by one month, starting June 5, said the president’s office in a statement. Essebsi made the decision following a consultation with Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef ...

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29 May
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Tunisian sentenced to death in Iraq for IS

29 May 2019: an Iraqi court sentenced a 24-year-old Tunisian Mohammed Berriri to death for joining IS, after a hearing lasting less than an hour. Berriri, dressed in a yellow prison uniform, admitted to joining IS, saying he thought it ...

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22 May
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EGYPT: 6 DEFENDANTS OF ‘KERDASA RISISTENCE COMMITTEES’ SENTENCED TO DEATH

22 May 2019: the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced six defendants in the case of popular resistance committees of Kerdasa to capital punishment. The court set a hearing for June 18 to deliver the ruling after the Grand Mufti. The defendants ...

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20 May
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Death penalty for two Al-shabaab militants as military top court upholds verdict

20 Maaio 2019  A military appeals court in Mogadishu upheld the death sentence against two Al-Shabaab militants, one of whom was involved in the Hotel Sahafi attack, that claimed 32 lives last November. The Military Supreme Court quashed attempts by Osman ...

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12 May
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Egypt court sentences 2 men to death over 2017 Coptic church attack

12 May 2019: two men were sentenced to death by hanging on Sunday for a deadly attack on a Cairo church in 2017 claimed by the Islamic State group, a judicial source said, after the case was deferred to the ...

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05 May
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Egypt: death penalty for 13 on terror charges

5 May 2019: Egypt’s highest appeals court has upheld death sentences for 13 people convicted of terror charges. The charges came over attacks in Cairo in which explosive devices left at least two police officers dead. The Court of Cassation ...

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29 Apr
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Somalia Military Court Sentences Police Officer To Death

29 April 2019: a Somali military court on Monday sentenced a police officer to death, after he was found guilty of murdering a civilian in Mogadishu on 6th January, this year. In a ruling read out on a state-run broadcasting Television, ...

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25 Apr
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Tunisia. Press release on the training for Judges and Prison Administration staff on Human Rights and the Death Penalty

The Arab Institute for Human Rights has organized a training session in Hammamet, on 20 and 21 April 2019, for judges and representatives of prison institutions on the role of the judge and the prison administration between human rights and ...

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20 Apr
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NGO Forum of the African Commission on Human and Peoples ‘ Rights in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh with the AOHR participation

20 April 2019,  Sharm el Sheikh The non-governmental Forum of the African Commission on Human and Peoples ‘ Rights was launched at 10 a.m. today in the context of the 46th session of the Committee, which is held in Sharm ...

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17 Apr
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Egypt Two sentenced to death for church bombing

17 April 2019: a Cairo criminal court sentenced on Tuesday two defendants to death over a 2017 terrorist attack against the Saint Menas and Pope Cyril IV church in Helwan, which killed nine Christian civilians and one policeman. The court ...

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