22 October 2017: an Egyptian criminal court, in a trial involving Islamists, confirmed the death sentences for 11 men and handed down life sentences to 14 others over charges including the attempted murder of policemen. The court ruling by Judge ...
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22 October 2017: an Egyptian criminal court has confirmed death sentences for 11 men and handed down life sentences to 14 others over charges including attempted murder of policemen. The court ruling by Judge Mohammed Nagy Shehata — known for ...
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16 October 2017: Former Al-Shabaab leader Mukhtar Robow has dared the group’s leaders to participate in suicide missions instead of sending their foot soldiers if they hold true to their convictions. Reacting to Saturday’s terror attack which has so far ...
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October 12, 2017: the state of emergency, in force in Tunisia for over a year and a half following a series of bloody jihadist attacks, has been extended by one month. “The President of the Republic Béji Caid Essebsi decided, after ...
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11 October 2017 : a report by the UK based Arab Organisation for Human Rights on human rights violations in Egypt during the third quarter of 2017 said that Egyptian courts have issued death sentences against 74 people. Former leader of ...
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10 October 2017: as part of the celebration of the International Day for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, a 10-day event was held in commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the International Day for the Abolition of the Death ...
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10 October 2017: the Tunisian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (CTCPM) on Tuesday called on the Presidency to accelerate the ratification of the Second Protocol of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, in order to definitively abolish the ...
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10 October 2017: an Egyptian court has sentenced eight defendants to death over storming a police station in a city just south of Cairo in 2013. The ruling by the Cairo Criminal Court also sentenced 50 others to life in ...
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10 October 2017: President AbdulFattah El-Sisi on Monday received a telephone call from Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (Faramajo), who expressed his appreciation for the historic relations between the two countries, praising Egypt’s role in supporting Somalia to achieve stability. ...
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7 October 2017: Thirteen convicts out of 44 were sentenced to death over charges of killing police personnel in a case dubbed in the media as “Soldiers of Egypt Cell.” This is the court’s initial verdict and will be referred ...
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