Egypt
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- presidential republic
- CONSTITUTION
- there have been various constitutions; the latest was approved by the constitutional committee in December 2013 and by the people in the referendum of January 14-15, 2014, then ratified by the interim President on January 19, 2014
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on English, Islamic, and Napoleonic systems
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral system of the House of Representatives (Majlis Al-Nowaab); 596 seats; 448 members directly elected by a majority mechanism, 120 members - with quotas for women, youth, Christians, and workers - elected from lists, and 28 members appointed by the President; the legislature lasts 5 years
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) is composed of the president and 10 judges, serving as the final instance on issues of constitutionality of laws and conflicts between lower courts regarding jurisdiction and rulings; Court of Cassation (CC), composed of the President and 550 judges organized into circuits, is the highest level of appeal for civil and criminal proceedings, referred to as "ordinary"; the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) - is composed of the President and organized into circuits
- DEATH SENTENCES
- 16 confirmed by the Court of Cassation and 4 by the Supreme Military Court
RELIGIONS
90% Muslims; 9% Copts, 1% Christians
From the country
OCTOBER 16, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING POLICEMEN
A court in Egypt on 14 October 2018 sentences three people to death for their involvement in the killing of 10 policemen and for belonging to an extremist group, a judicial source said.
OCTOBER 15, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES 17 PEOPLE TO DEATH FOR THE ATTACK ON COPTIC CHURCHES
A military court in Egypt has sentenced to death 17 people, held responsible for a series of attacks against some Coptic Christian churches in the country
OCTOBER 9, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES FOUR JIHADISTS TO DEATH
An Egyptian military court has sentenced four jihadists to death over attacks which killed 20 police officers, a judicial source said on 7 October 2018.
- OCTOBER 3, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT COURT CANCELS DEATH, IMPRISONMENT SENTENCES FOR ‘RETURNEES FROM LIBYA’ CASE, ORDERS RETRIAL
Egypt’s Court of Cassation ruled on October 2, 2018 to accept the appeal filed by defendants in the “Returnees from Libya” case, cancelling their death and imprisonment sentences and ordering a retrial.
OCTOBER 2, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: COURT ORDERS RETRIAL OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LEADER
An Egyptian court has ordered a retrial of the Muslim Brotherhood's leader Mohamed Badie and other senior figures from the banned group starting on Oct. 7, judicial sources and state news agency MENA said on September 30, 2018.
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT SENTENCES 20 TO DEATH, JAILS SCORES OVER POLICE KILLINGS
Egypt’s Court of Cassation on September 24, 2018 upheld death sentences for 20 people convicted of killing 13 policemen during violent unrest after the military overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: 65 PEOPLE SENTENCED OVER 2013 VIOLENCE
An Egyptian court on September 23, 2018 sentenced 64 people to varying prison terms and one man to death over violence in 2013 when the military overthrew the elected Islamist president.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MAN EXECUTED FOR MURDER BY HANGING
Abdel Rahman al-Gabarty was hanged on June 24 2018 after a death sentence in Case 119/2016, charged with the March 2015 killing of a high-ranking police official in the Suez area of east Cairo.
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT ISSUED 100 DEATH SENTENCES IN JUNE
Egyptian courts issued 41 death sentences, referred 60 other cases to the country’s Grand Mufti for approval, and executed one person in June, the Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) announced on July 10, 2018.
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPTIAN COURT SENTENCES 3 MEN TO DEATH FOR 2013 VIOLENCE
An Egyptian court sentenced three men to death and another 41 to life imprisonment on September 12, 2018 for their part in a 2013 attack on a police station south of Cairo.
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: COURT OF CASSATION ENDORSES FINAL DEATH SENTENCES FOR 2 DEFENDANTS IN TERROR CASE
Egypt's Court of Cassation has endorsed on June 26, 2018 final death sentences for two defendants in a terrorism-related case.
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt: Hamada Riad Al Adham executed in Cairo prison
12 September 2018: Hamada Riad Al Adham executed in Cairo prison