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Saudi Arabia News

KSA: Prosecutors seek death penalty for Saudi academic over use of social media

January 15, 2023 MEO Staff

The Saudi court documents reveal reasons for Dr. Awad Al-Qarni’s arrest, even though Saudi rulers are major investors in social media platforms The prominent law professor, Dr. Awad Al-Qarni, has been handed a death sentence [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: 10 sentenced to death for allegedly planning for attacks

January 31, 2022 MEO Staff

An Egyptian court has sentenced 10 members of the Muslim Brotherhood group to death for allegedly coordinating and planning attacks on the police, charges which defendants and their families denied. A Twitter account called Mr. [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt upholds death penalty for 12 Brotherhood members

June 14, 2021 MEO Staff

Egypt’s Court of Cassation on Monday upheld death sentences for 12 Muslim Brotherhood members, concluding a trial linked to a 2013 mass killing by security forces of President Morsi supporters at Raba’a sit-in, while culprits [ More … ]

Saudi Arabia News

Saudi Arabia defends decision to execute 14 Shia activists

August 7, 2017 MEO Staff

Human-rights activists claim that some of the sentenced men were tortured and forced into making false confessions Saudi Arabia defended its decision to execute more than a dozen Shia activists involved in demonstrations during the [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt court seeks death penalty for 30 in prosecutor bombing case

June 18, 2017 MEO Staff

A Cairo criminal court on Saturday recommended the death penalty for 30 people convicted of involvement in the 2015 assassination of Egypt’s top prosecutor, the most senior state official killed by militants in recent years. [ More … ]

Iran Latest News

Iran, Saudi Arabia, China top world execution list 2016

April 12, 2017 MEO Staff

Number of executions worldwide in 2016 drops from 2015, while Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s Egypt manages to double its number of capital punishments carried out. China executed the most people in 2016, followed by Iran and [ More … ]

Palestine Latest News

Gaza court sentences 2 Palestinians to death for drug dealing

March 20, 2017 MEO Staff

A military court in Gaza City sentenced two men to death on Sunday after they were found guilty of alleged drug dealing. It reportedly marked the first time that the death penalty was used in [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt’s Morsi slams his re-trial, stating: “I am still the president”

February 28, 2017 Ahmed Rashed

Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, blasted on Sunday court officials during the first session of a re-trial on charges that claimed that he orchestrated a prison break during the 2011 revolution.  Last Sunday, an [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt’s Public Prosecutor to Summon Everyone on ‘Terrorist List’ for Investigation

February 8, 2017 Ahmed Rashed

Egypt’s public prosecutor Nabil Sadek decided Tuesday to summon everyone named on the “terrorist list” for investigation regarding their alleged involvement in funding Muslim Brotherhood. In January, 1,538 people were placed on a so-called “terrorists [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt’s military regime adopts law dating back to British colonial era to repress protesters

February 2, 2017 Ahmed Rashed

The Egyptian military regime is using a law that was repealed 89 years ago to prosecute Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa and 493 others on charges that could lead to the penalty, according to a human [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Amnesty Calls for Retrial of 174/West Cairo Case Defendants Before Civilian Courts

October 5, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

Amnesty International has called on the Egyptian authorities to retry all those convicted in the case known as 174/west Cairo military court before an ordinary, civilian court without recourse to the death penalty and in [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Ibrahim Halawa Suffered Recent Beatings and Racist Abuses in Egypt’s Prison

September 3, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

Ibrahim Halawa, an Irish citizen in Egypt’s notorious prisons, has witnessed fresh abuse from the prisons’ guards. The Guardian has published a new letter sent by Ibrahim Halawa who unveiled that he has suffered beatings [ More … ]

Turkey condemns giving Morsi life sentence in prison
Egypt Latest News

Morsi Was Enclosed In Egypt’s List Of Terrorists

July 5, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

 Egypt’s court had ruled to include Mohamed Morsi – the first democratically-elected president who was ousted in a 2013 military coup – to Egypt’s official list of “terrorists”. The Cairo Criminal Court also ruled to [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Erdogan: Turkey’s Problem Is With The Egyptian Regime

July 5, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

Turkish Prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his country’s dispute is with the Egyptian regime and that there is no problem with Egyptian people, according to a Turkish state-run news agency.  Erdogan said,”The problem [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

The Mass Trial of Irish Juvenile Halawa and 493 other Prisoners Postponed

June 30, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

After a long delay, Egypt’s Court has postponed a verdict in the mass trial of Irish juvenile Ibrahim Halawa and 493 other prisoners, who were arrested after the military coup in 2013. There were expectations [ More … ]

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