2 january 2018: Egypt is to extend its nationwide state of emergency for three months from Jan. 13 to help tackle “the dangers and funding of terrorism”, according to the state news agency MENA. Egypt first imposed the current state ...
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2 January 2018: the hangings came days after the execution of 15 inmates convicted of attacking police and the military in the largest mass execution in Egypt in recent memory. Four civilans, Lotfy Khalil, Sameh Abdalla, Ahmed Abdelhadi and Ahmed ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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28 December 2017: Al Shabaab militants were reported to have beheaded a Somali man whom it accused of raping a girl in the southern town of Janale in Lower Shabelle region. The man whose name has not been identified was beheaded ...
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26 December 2017: Al-Shabab militants in Somalia have executed five people, including a 16-year-old boy, who they accused of spying for Kenyan, U.S. and Somali government forces. The boy and four men were publicly executed by a firing squad in ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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20 december 2017: the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) published a Country of Origin Information (COI) Report entitled ‘Somalia security situation’. The report is the third EASO COI report on Somalia, and provides an update of the EASO COI report on ...
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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 ...
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