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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

17 january 2018: an Egyptian military court has sentenced eight members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death, four in absentia and the prominent Islamic scholar Yousef Al-Qaradawi to life in prison in absentia over accusations that he killed a police ...

15 January 2018: North Cairo Criminal court issues final verdict in the trial of a man charged with killing a Coptic priest and injuring another in Cairo. Earlier، Ahmed Said، who was detained on charges of killing the Coptic priest ...

9  January 2018: three defendants, Mohammed Gamal al-Sayyed Ateyya, Mohammed Misbah Abd al-Haqq al-Sayyed, and Mohammed Ibrahim al-Baz, have been executed before yesterday, in case no. 93/2011/Ismailiya plenary military felonies, following a trial before a military court that did not ...

5 January 2018: Liz Throssell, the spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights released the following statement: “We are deeply shocked that 20 people are reported to have been executed in Egypt since last week. On 2 January, ...

4 January 2018: the number of civilians sentenced to death in Egypt’s military courts leapt from 60 in 2016 to at least 112 in 2017, according to two independent rights groups. Human rights advocates say the alarming numbers recorded by ...