Category Archives: egypt

5 March 2019: according to a monthly survey conducted by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, 56 defendants were handed death sentences in January of this year, in addition to 48 others who received preliminary death sentences — which are ...

3 March 2019: the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced one man to death and four others to life imprisonment in the case known as “the October Terrorist cell” case. The court sentenced Mohammed Ibrahim Fathi to death and four others to ...

21 febraury 2019: former Egyptian Vice-President Mohamed ElBaradei has decried Egypt’s frequent resort to capital punishment and has called for the abolition of the practice. He made the assertion a day after the Egyptian authorities executed nine people for alleged ...

20 February 2019: Egyptian authorities executed nine young men on morning, despite calls by rights groups to halt the executions over due process violations, a source close to their families told Middle East Eye. The nine men were convicted of ...

13 February 2019: Egypt executed three people who were sentenced to death for the killing of a senior police officer during a raid in Cairo in 2013. The case is related to the killing of Gen. Nabil Farag in September ...

7 February 2019: Egyptian authorities executed three political prisoners one year after they were sentenced to death on charges of killing the son of a judge, according to local rights activists. An Egyptian rights activist who knew the three men ...

30 January 2019: Egypt’s Cabinet approves a draft law amending some provisions of Law No. 182 of 1960 on regulating the use of drugs and combating trafficking. The draft amendment comes within the framework of a decisive response to the ...

20 January 2019: an Egyptian court upheld death sentences against five defendants charged with terrorism. Egypt’s Court of Cassation endorsed the final death sentences against the five defendants who were accused of terrorism in a case known as the “Giza ...

16 Jan 2019: a Cairo criminal court sentenced one man to death and another to 15 years in prison over the rape and attempted murder of a toddler. The case dates back to mid-2017, when two high school students abducted ...