1 febraury 2020: the Cairo Criminal Court handed death sentences to 37 convicts, including the high profile officer turned militant Hesham Ashmawy, for murder charges, according to Egyptian local media. They were members of the Ansar Bait al-Maqdis terror group. ...
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28th January 2020: an Egyptian court handed preliminary death sentences on Monday to three defendants over a failed assassination of Alexandria’s security director in March 2018. The Cairo criminal court referred the preliminary sentences to the Grand Mufti, the highest ...
Read MoreEgypt … The AOHRs’ Joint Team …. Starts a visit to the Al-Marj Public Prison As part of series of visits to Prisons and Detention Centers Cairo, 16 December 2019 Egypt The AOHRs’ Joint Team Starts a visit to ...
Read More8 December 2019: human rights sources revealed that the Egyptian authorities carried out the death sentence by hanging of three people early Thursday, who were convicted in cases in which they were accused of “terrorist crimes”. Egyptian and international human ...
Read More30 November 2019: Giza Criminal Court sentenced to death a defendant in the case known in media as “Imbaba Cell,” over accusations including targeting Christians and armed forces. The prosecution has charged the 16 defendants in the case, including three ...
Read More27 November 2019: a military court in Egypt has sentenced to death a man once considered the country’s most wanted jihadist. Hisham Ashmawi was found guilty of involvement in several high-profile attacks, including one in western Egypt in 2014 that killed ...
Read More25 November 2019: an Egyptian court upholds death sentences to seven people convicted of carrying out attacks that killed 11 policemen in 2016. The Cairo Criminal Court also sentenced 18 others to 10-15 years in prison for the same charges. ...
Read More17 November 2019: an Egyptian military court sentenced terrorist Abdel-Raheem al-Mesmary to execution by hanging and convicted 32 others in the Bahariya Oasis attack, which saw 16 security forces killed and 13 injured. The West Cairo Military Criminal Court sentenced ...
Read More26 October 2019: the Cairo Criminal Court unanimously sentenced to death Adel Khalaf, who is involved in the case known as the terrorist “Warraq Cell”. On 27 August, the court decided to refer papers of the defendant to the Mufti of ...
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