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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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’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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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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