Egypt
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, arson, rape,...
- News items in the archive
- 621
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Egypt is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 621 news items on Egypt, from 1999 to today.
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 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.
AUGUST 2, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 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,
JULY 29, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 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.
- JULY 22, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTY
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.
JULY 19, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 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.
- JULY 16, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: PRO-MORSI DEMONSTRATOR HANDED DEATH PENALTY
- JULY 11, 2017EgyptDEATH 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.
- JULY 3, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTY
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
- JULY 2, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTY
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.
- JUNE 22, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTY
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.
- JUNE 17, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTY
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.
JUNE 13, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 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.
- JUNE 7, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: SIX STUDENTS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Egypt’s Court of Cassation confirmed the death sentence for six university students.
- JUNE 1, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTY
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.
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 PENALTY
EGYPT: 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.
DECEMBER 15, 2016EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: PROMINENT ISLAMIST MILITANT HABARA EXECUTED AMID THREATS OF RETALIATION
Egypt executed prominent Islamist fighter Adel Habara, state media said, days after a top court rejected his final appeal and in defiance of militant threats to ignite "a volcano of jihad" across the country.