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22 July 2017: an Egyptian court sentenced 28 people to death in connection with the 2015 assassination of the country’s prosecutor-general, according to a local judicial source. Prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat was killed in a car bomb attack on his convoy in ...

21 July 2017: thirteen were sentenced to death by the Giza Criminal Court for the killing of former Central Bank Governor Hisham Ramez’s bodyguard. The trial, which began in 2013, also focused on the defendants’ involvement in the stealing of ...

17 July 2017: an Egyptian court confirmed a death sentence handed to a man after he was found guilty of violence in a case relating to a protest against the 2013 military coup that ousted former President Mohamed Morsi, the Anadolu ...

12 July 2017: the Minya Criminal Court sentenced 12 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group to death over breaking into Matay police station and killing an officer, official news agency MENA reported. The defendants were convicted of assaulting government ...

6 July 2017: hundreds of Egyptians have been sentenced to death since July 3, 2013, when Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president and a Muslim Brotherhood leader, was ousted and imprisoned in a bloody military coup. One of the ...

4 July 2017: an Egyptian court sentenced 20 people to death over the killing of 13 policemen following the army’s 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, judicial officials said. The court also handed 114 people sentences ranging from 15 ...

3 July 2017: the Court of Cassation upheld the Alexandria Criminal Court›s decision to execute three out of 71 defendants in case No. 6300 for 2013/ East Alexandria, which is known in the media as «The Events of al-Qaid Ibrahim». ...