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Egypt: Highest death sentences issued in 2021 worldwide, report

May 27, 2022 MEO Staff

Egypt carried out at least 83 executions in 2021, the third-highest total in the world, according to a report released yesterday by Amnesty International. The Amnesty International report also stated that Egyptian courts sentenced 356 [ More … ]

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Egypt: After executions, official rights council meets affected rights leaders

March 14, 2022 MEO Staff

The official human rights council has met with heads of several human rights organizations that continue to face intense repression from the state. Some participants said dialogue without genuine political will for reform is just [ More … ]

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Egypt still fifth largest executioner worldwide: Report

June 3, 2021 MEO Staff

Reprieve, a US-based legal action non-profit organization, has released a new report on the death penalty which reveals that Egypt remains the fifth largest executioner worldwide. Since Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi rose to power in a military [ More … ]

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Egypt executes 15 political prisoners

October 5, 2020 MEO Staff

Egypt’s execution of 23 detainees, 15 of whom were political prisoners, over the weekend has ignited condemnation online. For years, rights groups have lamented Egypt’s judicial system which metes out death sentences in mass trials [ More … ]

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Egypt Executed 15 People in February. Why Is UK Staying Silent: The Guardian

March 13, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

While there may be ” a special place for hell” for those who backed Brexit without a plan, regimes that execute people after fundamentally flawed trials get their own summit, wrote Rhys Davies. Just a [ More … ]

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Al-Sisi’s Regime Executed Nine Political Prisoners!

February 23, 2019 Ahmed Rashed
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Al-Sisi’s Regime Executed Nine Men Despite Calls from Rights Group

February 20, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

Al-Sisi’s regime executed nine men for killing Egypt’s top prosecutor, a prison source and a lawyer said on Wednesday. The men were among a group of 28 who were sentenced to death in the case [ More … ]

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European Parliament Slams Egypt’s Deteriorating Human Rights Situation

December 16, 2018 Ahmed Rashed

The EU’s lawmaking body has condemned Egyptian authorities for human rights abuses and is urging them to lift restrictions on free speech and assembly, halt mass trials and stop sentencing minors to death, and release [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt Upholds Death Sentences in Prosecutor Killing Case

November 26, 2018 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

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Egypt’s military regime and execution of political opponents

January 4, 2018 MEO Staff

 The number of civilians sentenced to death in Egypt’s military courts leapt from 60 in 2016 to at least 112 in 2017, according to two independent rights groups. Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected civilian [ More … ]

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Egypt’s human rights situation going from bad to worse under Al-Sisi’s military rule

July 14, 2017 MEO Staff

Egyptians have been exposed to enforced disappearance, torture, negligence, death in prison, mass trials, and executions under Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi’s military rule. Having jailed tens of thousands of political opponents since the military’s removal of democratically [ More … ]

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Bahrain summons Iraqi ambassador to protest VP remarks on executions

January 18, 2017 MEO Staff

Iraqi Vice-President Nouri Al-Maliki had called the execution of three Bahrainis ‘an ugly crime’ Bahrain’s foreign ministry summoned Iraq’s ambassador in Manama to protest against remarks by Iraqi officials denouncing the execution of men convicted [ More … ]

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JHR Condems Mass Death Sentences In Egypt

August 5, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

The exceptional judiciary in Egypt is still issuing death sentences, particularly mass verdicts, against opponents of  the Egyptian regime in what is mainly described as “political cases”, according to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. “In these cases, the papers are [ More … ]

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