28 July 2020: Egypt executed seven people over the killing of a police officer in the northeastern city of Ismailiya in 2013, a security official said. “The prison service on 28 July carried out the sentence of death by hanging ...
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1 July 2020: Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld death sentences against three defendants convicted on terrorism-related charges in the 2014 case known in the media as the Ansar Al-Sharia case. The court also upheld life imprisonment sentences for four others, ...
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30 June 2020 :Egypt has e xecuted Libyan militant Abdul Rahim Mohammed Al Mesmari, the mastermind behind deadly attack on security forces in Bahariya Oasis in 2017, the Ministry of Defence said in a video statement on its official account ...
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7 March 2020: UN human rights experts* urge the Egyptian authorities to release four Egyptians minors who have been tried through a process tainted with credible allegations of torture to extract confessions and who are now facing death sentences in ...
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4 March 2020: top Egyptian militant suspect Hisham al-Ashmawy was executed on 4 March 2020 following his conviction over several high-profile attacks, the country’s military spokesman said. Ashmawy, a former Egyptian special forces officer, led the Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, ...
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2 March 2020: an Egyptian court sentenced to death 37 defendants, including one of the country’s most high-profile militants, following their conviction of terrorism-related charges. The Cairo Criminal Court said the defendants were charged with belonging to a local affiliate ...
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24 February 2020: eight men were executed in Egypt in what is thought to be the first death sentences carried out in the country so far in 2020. The defendants were among 17 men who had been sentenced to death ...
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