Category Archives: egypt

09 Feb
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Egypt: Army Announces Highest State of Alert to Uproot Terrorism

9 February 2018: Military Spokesman Colonel Tamer Rifaei on Friday announced a comprehensive military operation at all strategic fronts that is carried out by the Egyptian Armed Forces to uproot terrorism. The military spokesman explained that the operation comes within the framework ...

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06 Feb
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Egypt. Military court upholds two death sentences over 2013 murder of police conscripts

6 February 2018: Egypt’s highest military appeals court has upheld the death sentences against two civilian defendants on charges of murder and committing acts of violence in the country’s North Sinai province in 2013, a legal source told the Anadolu Agency. The ...

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03 Feb
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Egypt. Three sentenced to death over Awsim blood-feud revenge

3 February 2018: Giza Criminal Court sentenced three defendants to death in their re-trail over killing a person and attempted murder of two others including a child in the light of a blood-feud revenge between the two sides. The three are: Salem ...

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31 Jan
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Egypt. Court refers the Mufti death sentences for 10

31 january 208: an Egyptian court has referred the case of 10 alleged Muslim Brotherhood members held on terrorism charges to the country’s top religious authority, the Grand Mufti, for a non-binding opinion on whether they can be executed. The ...

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31 Jan
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Egypt: Repealed colonial-era law used to sentence 474 Egyptians to death from 2014-2017

31 Janaury 2018: the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), in its report Toward the Emancipation of Egypt exposing the Egyptian Parliament’s repeal of the Assembly Law (Law 10 of 1914) in 1928, renews, with other organisations, the demand to suspend ...

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31 Jan
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Egypt. Sentenced to Death to 19 for Church Attack

31 january 2018: an Egyptian court sentenced 19 Muslim defendants to a suspended sentence of one year for attacking an unlicensed church south of Cairo. A verdict was handed down Wednesday at the Misdemeanor Court. The defendants will not have ...

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30 Jan
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Egypt, Tayseer Odeh Sulaiman aged 25 executed

30 January 2018: Tayseer Odeh Sulaiman, aged 25, was executed. Sulaiman was sentenced to death in Case No. 99 of 2014 by the Military Criminal Court in Ismailia after the Supreme Military Court of Appeals rejected his appeal without giving ...

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24 Jan
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Egypt. Execution of a man accused of killing army officer

24 January 2018: Egyptian prison authorities have executed an Egyptian man on charges of killing an Egyptian army officer in the Ismailia province in 2013. A military court sentenced Mohammed Ahmed Mohammed Abu Sarie to death after his conviction of ...

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20 Jan
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Egypt. Court of Cassation upholds death sentence for three over Kerdasa raid

20 January 2018: the Court of Cassation upheld death sentences passed down on three defendants over the murder of a high-ranking police officer in rural Kerdasa town in September 2013 in the aftermath of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi’s ouster. The ...

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18 Jan
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Egypt. Human Right Watch Report

18 january 2018: according to Human Right Watch 2018 Report: “Since July 2013, Egyptian criminal courts have sentenced over 800 people to death. The Cassation Court, Egypt’s highest appellate court, has overturned many of those sentences and ordered retrials. In ...

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