Egypt 2017

EGYPT: MILITARY COURT ISSUES 14 DEATH SENTENCES

A military court sentenced 14 people from Alexandria to death over claims of planting explosives in front of government offices, killing and wounding a number of citizens.

EGYPT: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST 3 FOR KILLING JUDGE’S SON

Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld the death sentence against three people on charges of killing a judge’s son in the city of Mansoura in September 2014.

EGYPT: GRAND MUFTI AFFIRMS DEATH SENTENCES FOR 13 AJNAD MISR TERRORISTS

A criminal court in Egypt's Giza has sentenced 13 members of the terrorist group Ajnad Misr to death after the country's top Muslim legal authority consented to the punishment, following their conviction for attacking security forces.

AFRICAN UNION CALLS ON EGYPT TO 'IMMEDIATELY' SUSPEND DEATH SENTENCES

The African Union has called on the Egyptian government to repeal the death sentence in 20 new cases.

EGYPT: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES 11 ANSAR BEIT AL-MAQDIS MEMBERS TO DEATH

An Egyptian military court issued a preliminary death sentence against 11 members of the Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis terrorist group who were convicted of involvement in a series of attacks committed in 2014 and 2015, including the 2015 bombing of the Italian co

EGYPT: CAIRO COURT SENTENCES TO DEATH 7 ELEMENTS OF MATROUH CELL

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced to death seven terrorists of the Daesh-affiliated "Matrouh cell" on charges of beheading 21 Egyptian Copts working in Libya in February 2015.

ANTI-TERROR STATES ADD 2 ENTITIES, 11 INDIVIDUALS TO TERRORIST BLACKLIST

The Anti-Terror Quartet (ATQ); Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain, added two entities and 11 individuals to its blacklist.

EGYPT: COURT ISSUES PRELIMINARY DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN CONVICTED OF KILLING COPTIC PRIEST

A South Giza criminal court issued a preliminary death sentence against a man convicted of killing Coptic Orthodox priest Samaan Shehata in Cairo last October.

14 EGYPTIANS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ALLEGEDLY KILLING SOLDIER

An Egyptian military court has referred the files of 14 defendants to the country’s top religious authority, the Grand Mufti, seeking his approval of their execution.

EGYPT: TOP COURT ORDERS RETRIAL OF 7 SENTENCED TO DEATH, JAIL OVER TERROR CHARGES

Egypt's top court cancelled the execution verdict of one defendant and the 10-year jail sentences of six others and ordered their retrial over forming a terrorist cell to carry out anti-government activities, official MENA news agency reported.

EGYPT: SAUDI SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING LIBYAN WIFE

A 26-year-old Saudi national studying in Egypt was sentenced to death in absentia by a court in Alexandria for murdering his Libyan-born wife, according to Sabq newspaper

COURT SENTENCES 13 OF ‘SOLDIERS OF EGYPT’ TO DEATH’

Thirteen convicts out of 44 were sentenced to death over charges of killing police personnel in a case dubbed in the media as “Soldiers of Egypt Cell.”

EGYPT: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER BURNING AGOUZA'S NIGHTCLUB

The Giza Criminal Court sentenced four defendants to death over charges of burning a nightclub in Al Agouza, resulting in killing 17 persons inside.

EGYPT COURT SENTENCES 9 TO DEATH FOR KILLING BODYGUARD OF FORMER CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR

A Giza criminal court sentenced nine people to death for killing the bodyguard of then-governor of the Central Bank of Egypt Hesham Ramez in February 2013.

EGYPT: 7 ‘IS MEMBERS’ SENTENCED TO DEATH

An Egyptian court sentenced to death seven people for membership of the Islamic State (IS) group and over the beheading in Libya of 21 Christians, all but one of them from Egypt, judicial officials said.

EGYPT: COURT SENTENCES 11 TO DEATH OVER VIOLENCE

An Egyptian court has sentenced eleven people to death over charges of attempted murder and violence, official news agency MENA reported.

EGYPT: TRAINING COURSE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND PROMOTING CRIMINAL JUSTICE

The Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) launched today the activities of the training course on "Human Rights and promoting Criminal Justice" in Hurghada city,

EGYPT: 8 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 2013 PROTESTS

A criminal court in Egypt sentenced to death eight defendants in a case related to the deadly protests of 2013 that followed the military-led ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi.

EGYPT: 28 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER PROSECUTOR'S DEATH

An Egyptian court sentenced 28 people to death in connection with the 2015 assassination of the country's prosecutor-general, according to a local judicial source.

EGYPT: 13 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING FORMER CBE GOVERNOR’S BODYGUARD

Thirteen were sentenced to death by the Giza Criminal Court for the killing of former Central Bank Governor Hisham Ramez’s bodyguard.

EGYPT: PRO-MORSI DEMONSTRATOR HANDED DEATH PENALTY

EGYPT SENTENCES 12 BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS TO DEATH OVER VIOLENCE ALLEGATIONS

An Egyptian court sentenced 12 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group to death over breaking into a police station, official news agency MENA reported.

the Court of Cassation upheld the Alexandria Criminal Court›s decision to execute three out of 71 defendants

the Court of Cassation upheld the Alexandria Criminal Court›s decision to execute three out of 71 defendants

EGYPT: 20 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING POLICEMEN

An Egyptian court sentenced 20 people to death over the killing of 13 policemen following the army’s 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, judicial officials said.

UN EXPERTS URGE EGYPT TO HALT EXECUTIONS AFTER 'FLAWED TRIALS'

A group of U.N. human rights experts demanded that Egypt halt the planned executions of six men sentenced to death on the basis of forced confessions.

EGYPT COURT SENTENCES 31 TO DEATH OVER KILLING EX-TOP PROSECUTOR

An Egyptian court sentenced 31 persons to death over killing former public prosecutor in a bomb attack on his car in 2015, the Egyptian state TV reported.

EGYPT: PARLIAMENT APPROVES DEATH PENALTY FOR HUMAN ORGAN TRAFFICKERS

Health Minister Ahmed Emad al-Din said that the Parliament has approved the draft law introduced from his ministry that aims to stricken punitive measures against human organ traffickers.

EGYPT: SIX STUDENTS SENTENCED TO DEATH

Egypt’s Court of Cassation confirmed the death sentence for six university students.

EGYPT: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CHILD'S RAPE

An Egyptian court sentenced a man to death for raping a 20-month-old girl, in a case that sparked widespread public outrage, judicial sources told Reuters.