Category Archives: egypt

1 January 2018: the West Cairo Military Court sentenced one person to death and four others to life in prison in relation to an attack on the Embassy of Niger in Giza in July 2015, in which one policeman was killed. The ...

December 2017: the Cassation Court upheld the death sentence on Mohammed Ahmed Case for killing, on November 4, 2014, Lt. Col. Ahmed Faruoq.  The firstinstance court sentenced him to death in July 2016. The case is no. 397/2013/Ismailiya plenary military ...

26 December 2017: Egyptian authorities executed 15 prisoners convicted of attacks on security forces in the restive Sinai Peninsula, police officials said. These brought which brought to at least 31 the number of executions through 2017. The fifteen men were ...

21 December 2017: military and civil Egyptian courts issued 40 death sentences against suspects in four different cases during one week, Quds Press reported yesterday. On 12 December, Quds Press said, the Court of Cassation approved three death sentences against Muslim Brotherhood members. The ...

19 December 2017: the Cairo Criminal Court referred the documents of 21 defendants in the “Damietta Terrorist Cell” case to Grand Mufti Shawky Allam before sentencing them to death. The court set the final verdict date to February 22 for ...

17 December 2017: an Egyptian military court sentenced 14 people to death on charges of involvement in the 2015 attacks in the coastal city of Alexandria. The defendants were charged with attacking government buildings, planning to kill public figures and security officials, ...

14 december 2017: the Court of Cassation upheld the death sentence against three people on charges of killing a judge’s son in the city of Mansoura in September 2014. In July 2016, the Mansoura Criminal Court sentenced five people to ...

8 December 2017: a report by Mada Masr was published after the Mada followed, for over four months, 35 cases of minors who have appeared before criminal and military courts, and met over 10 minors who have finished serving criminal ...

7 december 2017 : a criminal court in Egypt’s Giza has sentenced 13 members of the terrorist group Ajnad Misr to death after the country’s top Muslim legal authority consented to the punishment, following their conviction for attacking security forces. ...