3 March 2019: the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced one man to death and four others to life imprisonment in the case known as “the October Terrorist cell” case. The court sentenced Mohammed Ibrahim Fathi to death and four others to ...
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25 February 2019: a military tribunal in Mogadishu has sentenced a government soldier to death for killing a civilian in Mahad district in Middle Shabelle region, south of Somalia. Abdulkadir Mohamud Ali was found guilty by the court for the murder ...
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Mogadishu, 25 February 2019: the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) marked another milestone in its support to Somalia with the inauguration of the Mogadishu Prison and Court Complex (MPCC), a key part of the Federal Government’s response ...
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21 febraury 2019: former Egyptian Vice-President Mohamed ElBaradei has decried Egypt’s frequent resort to capital punishment and has called for the abolition of the practice. He made the assertion a day after the Egyptian authorities executed nine people for alleged ...
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20 February 2019: Egyptian authorities executed nine young men on morning, despite calls by rights groups to halt the executions over due process violations, a source close to their families told Middle East Eye. The nine men were convicted of ...
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17 February 2019: Somalia’s Puntland State military court sentenced four young men to death while three others were handed fines after they were convicted of murder, Garowe Online reports. Puntland prosecuting attorney at the military court, Mohamed Yusuf said the ...
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13 February 2019: Egypt executed three people who were sentenced to death for the killing of a senior police officer during a raid in Cairo in 2013. The case is related to the killing of Gen. Nabil Farag in September ...
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7 February 2019: Egyptian authorities executed three political prisoners one year after they were sentenced to death on charges of killing the son of a judge, according to local rights activists. An Egyptian rights activist who knew the three men ...
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4 February 2019: eight defendants out of 292 people accused of attempting to assassinate Egypt’s President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and former Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef in Saudi Arabia, were sentenced to death. The defendants are accused of planning ...
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30 January 2019: Egypt’s Cabinet approves a draft law amending some provisions of Law No. 182 of 1960 on regulating the use of drugs and combating trafficking. The draft amendment comes within the framework of a decisive response to the ...
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