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 … ]
The Court of Cassation sentenced six young people to death and three others to life in prison on Wednesday for killing an enlisted police officer in Egypt’s northern city of Mansoura in February 2014. The [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* Cases related to the July 15, 2016 coup attempt have started. In the first place of the legal process, the pleas of defendants are being heard in line with the indictments that were [ 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 … ]
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 … ]
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