Egypt 2017
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News on Egypt in 2017
MAY 18, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 8 MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
An Egyptian criminal court sentenced eight alleged Muslim Brotherhood members to death for attacking a police station in 2015, local media reported.
- MAY 16, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTY
‘CONTAINING THE DEATH PENALTY IN TIME OF WAR ON TERRORISM’ SEMINAR HELD IN CAIRO
A two-day seminar (15/16 May) was held in Cairo, Egypt, on the presentation of the project “Containing the death penalty in times of war on terrorism” by the association Hands Off Cain and financed by the EU Commission.
MAY 8, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: NEW LIFE SENTENCE ISSUED AGAINST BROTHERHOOD SUPREME GUIDE
An Egyptian court sentenced the Muslim Brotherhood's supreme guide Mohamed Badie to life in prison for "planning violent attacks" in a retrial, judicial officials and a lawyer said.
- MAY 4, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT COURT OVERTURNS DEATH SENTENCES FOR TRIBESMEN
More than two dozen Egyptians sentenced to death have been ordered by the court of cassation to be retried.
MAY 3, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: PRISON AUTHORITIES EXECUTE SIX PRISONERS
Egyptian prison authorities executed six prisoners, in relation to two separate cases.
MAY 3, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: CAIRO COURT EXONERATES MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN POST-MORSI VIOLENCE CASE
A Cairo criminal court has exonerated a man who had been previously sentenced to death on charges of involvement in deadly clashes in Giza's Omraniya district following the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.
- APRIL 2, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: PRELIMINARY DEATH SENTENCE ISSUED AGAINST CONTROVERSIAL MUSLIM PREACHER WAGDY GHONIM
A Cairo criminal court issued a preliminary death sentence against controversial Muslim preacher Wagdy Ghonim and two other men after they were convicted of inciting to murder security forces and Christians, Ahram Arabic website reported.
MARCH 24, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: HOSNI MUBARAK FREED, SIX YEARS AFTER OVERTHROW
Six years after baying crowds ousted him at the peak of the Arab Spring, former President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt was freed on March 24 from the Cairo hospital where he had been detained, capping a long and largely fruitless effort to hold him accountable
- MARCH 9, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN WHO KILLED COPTIC SHOPKEEPER
A court in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria sentenced a man to death after he stabbed a Coptic liquor store owner to death.
- FEBRUARY 26, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT PARLIAMENT REJECTS ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
The human rights committee of Egypt's parliament said it will never recommend that the death penalty be
- FEBRUARY 20, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: CASSATION COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES FOR 10 OVER FOOTBALL RIOT
The Egyptian Cassation Court upheld the death sentences to 10 people convicted for rioting that killed 74 fans and injured over 500 at a football match in 2012.
- FEBRUARY 7, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR U.S. EMBASSY CLASHES
An Egyptian court slapped two people with death sentences for involvement in "acts of violence" that took
- FEBRUARY 1, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: GIZA CRIMINAL COURT HANDS DEATH PENALTY TO 2 MEMBERS OF AL-WARRAQ TERRORIST CELL
The Giza Criminal Court sentenced two defendants from the Al-Warraq terrorist cell to death. Two other
- JANUARY 19, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: 35 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MEMBERSHIP
A military court in Cairo sentenced 35 Egyptians to death by hanging and 54 to life in prison on charges of
- JANUARY 1, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTY
The Egyptian Constitution makes no reference to the death penalty.
The Egyptian Constitution makes no reference to the death penalty.