1 July 2020: Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld death sentences against three defendants convicted on terrorism-related charges in the 2014 case known in the media as the Ansar Al-Sharia case. The court also upheld life imprisonment sentences for four others, ...
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30 June 2020 :Egypt has e xecuted Libyan militant Abdul Rahim Mohammed Al Mesmari, the mastermind behind deadly attack on security forces in Bahariya Oasis in 2017, the Ministry of Defence said in a video statement on its official account ...
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4 March 2020: top Egyptian militant suspect Hisham al-Ashmawy was executed on 4 March 2020 following his conviction over several high-profile attacks, the country’s military spokesman said. Ashmawy, a former Egyptian special forces officer, led the Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, ...
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2 March 2020: an Egyptian court sentenced to death 37 defendants, including one of the country’s most high-profile militants, following their conviction of terrorism-related charges. The Cairo Criminal Court said the defendants were charged with belonging to a local affiliate ...
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24 February 2020: eight men were executed in Egypt in what is thought to be the first death sentences carried out in the country so far in 2020. The defendants were among 17 men who had been sentenced to death ...
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1 febraury 2020: the Cairo Criminal Court handed death sentences to 37 convicts, including the high profile officer turned militant Hesham Ashmawy, for murder charges, according to Egyptian local media. They were members of the Ansar Bait al-Maqdis terror group. ...
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28th January 2020: an Egyptian court handed preliminary death sentences on Monday to three defendants over a failed assassination of Alexandria’s security director in March 2018. The Cairo criminal court referred the preliminary sentences to the Grand Mufti, the highest ...
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8 December 2019: human rights sources revealed that the Egyptian authorities carried out the death sentence by hanging of three people early Thursday, who were convicted in cases in which they were accused of “terrorist crimes”. Egyptian and international human ...
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30 November 2019: Giza Criminal Court sentenced to death a defendant in the case known in media as “Imbaba Cell,” over accusations including targeting Christians and armed forces. The prosecution has charged the 16 defendants in the case, including three ...
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27 November 2019: a military court in Egypt has sentenced to death a man once considered the country’s most wanted jihadist. Hisham Ashmawi was found guilty of involvement in several high-profile attacks, including one in western Egypt in 2014 that killed ...
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