Egypt 2018
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News on Egypt in 2018
AUGUST 8, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: COURT SENTENCES 45 TO DEATH OVER DEADLY FIGHT
An Egyptian criminal court sentenced 45 people to death over killing three people in an armed fight in the coastal province of Alexandria.
- JULY 29, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt: Abdul Rashid Ahmed Abdel- Rahim executed in the case of a murder
29 July 2018: Abdul Rashid Ahmed Abdel- Rahim executed in the case of a murder
- JULY 28, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT COURT HANDS DOWN 75 DEATH SENTENCES
An Egyptian court sentenced to death 75 extremists, including Muslim Brotherhood leaders, and referred what was the largest single case of capital punishment convictions to the country’s top religious authority.
- JULY 12, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPTIAN COURT SENTENCE 13 TO DEATH FOR PRISON ESCAPE
In the city of Ismailiyah, the local criminal court sentenced to death 13 people, witnesses and local newspapers said
- JULY 12, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt: Executes 6 for kidnapping and murder
12 July 2018: Executes 6 for kidnapping and murder
JULY 12, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 18 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLINGS
In the Nile Delta town of El-Zagazig, the local criminal court sentenced 18 people to death in the killings of the policeman and guard, MENA said.
JUNE 26, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: CAIRO CRIMINAL COURT ISSUES PRELIMINARY DEATH SENTENCES FOR SIX CONVICTED IN QALYUBIYA POLICE CHECKPOINT ATTACK
Cairo Criminal Court issued preliminary death sentences on six people convicted of attacking a Qalyubiya police checkpoint, killing one sergeant, in 2016.
JUNE 14, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 11 DEATH SENTENCES
An Egyptian criminal court referred the preliminary death sentences of 11 members of the terrorist-designated Muslim Brotherhood organization
- JUNE 11, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT - 7 DEATH SENTENCES
FOR KILLING POLICEMAN
- MAY 14, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT COURT ASKS MUFTI TO WEIGH IN ON DEATH SENTENCES FOR 13
An Egyptian court has referred the case of 13 defendants facing terrorism charges to the country's top religious authority, the Grand Mufi, for a non-binding opinion on whether they can be potentially executed as the prosecution seeks.
- APRIL 28, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: 6 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 2013 VIOLENCE
Egypt’s highest appellate court confirmed the death penalty for six people in connection with violence in the wake of the ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
- APRIL 27, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
some articles in the Code of Criminal Procedures were amended.
some articles in the Code of Criminal Procedures were amended.
- APRIL 23, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
MURDERER OF ADIB EGYPT BANK CEO NEVINE LOUTFY SENTENCED TO DEATH
Egypt’s Giza Criminal Court handed down a death sentence to the killer of Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) CEO Nevine Loutfy, who was found dead inside her house in Cairo’s 6 October City in 2016.
- APRIL 17, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt 1 sentenced to death for ordinary crimes
17 April 2018: the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced one person to death for killing a Yemeni student in the course of a robbery.
- APRIL 16, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt 3 sentenced to death for ordinary crimes
16 April 2018: three defendants were sentenced to death for killing their brother by the Alexandria Criminal Court.
- APRIL 15, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST 4 OVER PLOTTING ATTACKS
Egypt's highest appeals court upheld death sentences for four people over forming a "terrorist cell" to plot attacks on security forces and other institutions.
- APRIL 15, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt 1 sentenced to death for ordinary crimes
15 April 2018: the Zaqaziq Criminal Court handed down the death penalty in connection with a murder.
- APRIL 11, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt 3 sentenced to death for ordinary crimes
11 April 2018: the Zaqaziq Criminal Court sentenced three people to death in connection with a bloody row between two families.
- APRIL 10, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt 1 sentenced to death for ordinary crimes
10 April 2018: the Ismailiya Criminal Court sentenced one person to death who was convicted of killing his father.
- APRIL 10, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: 11 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DEADLY FIGHT OVER CAR WASH
An Egyptian court sentenced 11 people to death by hanging for involvement in a deadly gunfire over car washing, semi-official newspaper Al Ahram reported.
- APRIL 10, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: 36 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CHURCH ATTACKS
A Cairo military court sentenced 36 people to death over their involvement in attacks against Coptic churches in Egypt, defence lawyers said.
- APRIL 5, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt 2 sentenced to death for ordinary crimes
5 April 2018: the Helwan Criminal Court sentenced two defendants to death in a robbery-linked homicide.
- APRIL 3, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt 6 sentenced to death for ordinary crimes in two different cases
3 April 2018: the Shebin al-Kom Criminal Court sentenced two people to death; another four people were sentenced to death in connection with a blood feud by the Sohag Court.
- APRIL 1, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt 1 sentenced to death for ordinary crimes
April 2018: the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced one person to death for murder, which occurred in a fight following a traffic dispute.
APRIL 1, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: COURT OF CASSATION UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE IN KILLING OF LIQUOR STORE OWNER
Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld a death sentence for a man convicted of murdering Alexandria liquor store owner Youssef Lamei.
- MARCH 26, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: TWO DEATH SENTENCES CONFIRMED
26 March 2018: the death penalty for two students, Ahmed Amin al-Ghazali and Abd al-Basir, has been confirmed.
- MARCH 22, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Three more men have been executed in Egypt for terrorism.
Three more men have been executed in Egypt for terrorism.
- MARCH 22, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
two other persons -Suleiman Eid Garabia and Rabhi Gomaa Hussein Hassan – were executed by hanging.
22 March 2018: two other persons -Suleiman Eid Garabia and Rabhi Gomaa Hussein Hassan – were executed by hanging.
- MARCH 20, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Ahmed Samir Radwan 22 years old and Abdo Mohamed Ezzat Abdel Majeed 24 years were executed by hanging in the case of killing a student in the first grade secondary in the east.
20 march 2018: Ahmed Samir Radwan 22 years old and Abdo Mohamed Ezzat Abdel Majeed 24 years were executed by hanging in the case of killing a student in the first grade secondary in the east.
MARCH 12, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: CRIMINAL COURT SENTENCES TO DEATH WIFE AND LOVER FOR MURDERING HUSBAND IN SHARQIA
The Criminal Court in Sharqia Governorate chaired by Chancellor Mahmud Al Kahky has upheld decision of the Grand Mufti to sentence to death a housewife and her lover for murdering the husband and an angler wants to bed her.