Joint statement by HoC, AOHR, AIHR and SWA December 18, 2017 marks the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Resolution for the Universal Moratorium on Capital Executions by the General Assembly of the United Nations. This is a historic vote ...
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17 December 2017: an Egyptian military court sentenced 14 people to death on charges of involvement in the 2015 attacks in the coastal city of Alexandria. The defendants were charged with attacking government buildings, planning to kill public figures and security officials, ...
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14 december 2017: the Court of Cassation upheld the death sentence against three people on charges of killing a judge’s son in the city of Mansoura in September 2014. In July 2016, the Mansoura Criminal Court sentenced five people to ...
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8 December 2017: a report by Mada Masr was published after the Mada followed, for over four months, 35 cases of minors who have appeared before criminal and military courts, and met over 10 minors who have finished serving criminal ...
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7 december 2017 : a criminal court in Egypt’s Giza has sentenced 13 members of the terrorist group Ajnad Misr to death after the country’s top Muslim legal authority consented to the punishment, following their conviction for attacking security forces. ...
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5 december 2017: one Al-Shabaab militant was sentenced to death while three others were condemned to serve jail terms after a military court found them guilty of involvement in hotel explosions within the city. The convicts Abdikadir Abukar, Mohamed Omar Akile, ...
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30 November 2017: Sofiane Mezghiche, spokesperson for the General Directorate of Prisons and Rehabilitation, said in a press conference that 80 detainees in terrorism-related cases have started a hunger strike at Mornaguia Prison since November 20th. These inmates are followed ...
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27 November 2017 : a five-day workshop to train Somali officials on Countering Violent Extremism and the processes of reintegrating defectors is ongoing in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is training twenty participants drawn from Somalia’s ...
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25 November 2017: the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced to death seven terrorists of the Daesh-affiliated “Matrouh cell” on charges of beheading 21 Egyptian Copts working in Libya in February 2015. The court also sentenced 10 defendants to 25 years in ...
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23 November 2017 : the Anti-Terror Quartet (ATQ) composed by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain, added two entities and 11 individuals to its blacklist. The blacklist included the Doha-based International Union of Muslim Scholars, and the International Islamic ...
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