Category Archives: egypt

6 July 2017: hundreds of Egyptians have been sentenced to death since July 3, 2013, when Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president and a Muslim Brotherhood leader, was ousted and imprisoned in a bloody military coup. One of the ...

4 July 2017: an Egyptian court sentenced 20 people to death over the killing of 13 policemen following the army’s 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, judicial officials said. The court also handed 114 people sentences ranging from 15 ...

3 July 2017: the Court of Cassation upheld the Alexandria Criminal Court›s decision to execute three out of 71 defendants in case No. 6300 for 2013/ East Alexandria, which is known in the media as «The Events of al-Qaid Ibrahim». ...

22 June 2017: a group of U.N. human rights experts demanded that Egypt halt the planned executions of six men sentenced to death on the basis of forced confessions. The six men, who were convicted in 2015 of terrorism-related charges ...

19 June 2017: the High Military Court upheld the death sentences against Lotfy Khalil, Sameh Abdalla, Ahmed al-Sehemy and Ahmed Salama, all of whom were present in court. The court also upheld death sentences against Ahmed Mansour, Fakih Agamy and ...

17 June 2017: an Egyptian court recommended the death sentence for 31 suspected members of the Islamic Brotherhood after the government said the organization, backed by Hamas, assassinated the nation’s top prosecutor in 2015. The Islamic Brotherhood and Hamas have ...

7 June 2017: the Egypt’s Court of Cassation confirmed the death sentence for six university students in the  “Mansoura Guard Killing Case”. The names of the six students are 30-year-old Bassim Mohsen Ali Al Khoreiby, 28-year-old Khalid Askar, 24-year-old Mahmoud ...

8 May 2017 : a Cairo criminal court has exonerated a man who had been previously sentenced to death on charges of involvement in deadly clashes in Giza’s Omraniya district following the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013. In ...

June 1st, 2017: An Egyptian court sentenced a man to death for raping a 20-month-old girl, in a case that sparked widespread public outrage, judicial sources told Reuters. The victim’s mother accused a 35-year-old man of kidnapping and raping her ...