Former Member of Parliament Dr. Dardery has recently sent a letter to President Biden against the execution of innocents in Egypt after Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld their death sentences Dr. Abdul Mawgood Dardery, former [ More … ]
Mehmet Gormez, the former head of the Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs calls on the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar and the Mufti of Egypt to intervene for intervening to stop implementation of the recent death [ More … ]
Monday June 14, 2021, Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld death sentences for 12 protestors, including prominent Muslim Brotherhood leaders, concluding a trial linked to a 2013 mass killing by security forces of President Morsi supporters [ More … ]
A number of human rights organizations and defenders on Wednesday sent a letter to the French parliament, calling on the French MPs to interfere to cancel or even commute the politicized death sentences against 12 [ More … ]
Egypt’s al-Sisi should immediately commute the death sentences for 12 protestors, including prominent Muslim Brotherhood leaders who had been convicted in a grossly unfair mass trial for participation in the 2013 Rab’a sit-in that ended with security [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have executed 16 people convicted and sentenced to death in criminal cases this week, a significant hike in the number of executions in the country. Yesterday alone (Tuesday), authorities executed 11 people in [ More … ]
Amendments to Egypt’s constitution proposed and agreed by a parliamentary chamber dominated by supporters of General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi have, in the words of his political opponents, concentrated more power in the hands of one [ More … ]
Egypt’s Court of Cassation, the highest appeals court, has upheld the death sentence handed down to 13 defendants on a charge of murder and committing acts of violence, raising the number of final death sentences [ More … ]
Egypt’s highest appellate court upheld the death sentence against nine people over the 2015 killing of the country’s prosecutor-general. The Court of Cassation confirmed the penalty after being convicted in the death of Hisham Barakat, [ More … ]
Throughout the five years of the military coup that overthrew Egypt’s first democratically-elected government, Al-Sisi’s regime has launched the largest crackdown on opposition in the country’s modern history. Amnesty International says Egypt’s crackdown on freedom [ More … ]
The European Parliament issued a resolution on executions in Egypt on 8 February, expressing concerns that “strict procedures are in place within the country’s legal system in cases where the death penalty is applicable.” The European [ More … ]
Cairo Criminal Court on Saturday issued death sentences for 28 out of the 56 defendants accused of involvement in the 2015 assassination of former General Prosecutor Hesham Barakat. Preliminary death sentences were handed to 30 [ More … ]
Egypt’s minister of Defense Sedki Sobhy has ratified the military court’s decision regarding case 174/west Cairo military court. In May 2016, Egypt’s military court has issued death sentences to 8 defendants in the case 174/2015 [ More … ]
An Egyptian military court sentenced 104 dissidents to prison for alleged violence following the August 2013 violent crackdown of Egyptian security forces, according to defense lawyers, reported Anadolu Agency. Lawyers Khaled Komi, Alaa Tawfiq, and [ More … ]
A military court in Egypt sentenced 418 opponents to prison terms ranging from two years to life in prison for their alleged involvement in violence at a police station in August 2013, according to a [ More … ]
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