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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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’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 … ]
The Egyptian military regime is using a law that was repealed 89 years ago to prosecute Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa and 493 others on charges that could lead to the penalty, according to a human [ More … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
The world’s leading professional organization for journalists- the National Press Club (NPC)- has expressed its deep concern over the Egyptian court verdict to uphold death penalties for three journalists. Egypt’s court had confirmed Egypt’s Grand [ More … ]
Cairo Criminal Court has sentenced the first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi to life in prison and an additional 15-year prison sentence in what is known as the Qatar espionage case. Life sentences in Egypt are [ More … ]
EgyptAir hijacker who had threatened to blow up the plane has told the Flight crew that he opposes the Egyptian military-backed government, said the Associated Press. His lawyer also said that his client’s extradition to [ More … ]
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