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
- 626
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 626 news items on Egypt, from 1999 to today.
In Egypt capital punishment is applied both by the ordinary courts and by terrorism courts, and sentences not infrequently come at the end of collective trials with dozens of defendants. The method is hanging.
Human rights organisations report sentences founded on contested confessions and limits on the right to a defence. The archive gathers sentences, executions and the individual cases the association follows.
Latest news
APRIL 29, 2013EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MAN FREE AFTER 1995 BID TO MURDER MUBARAK
An Egyptian court acquitted a Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya party leader who had been sentenced
- APRIL 7, 2013EgyptDEATH PENALTY
three Seychellois were sentenced to death in Egypt for drug trafficking.
three Seychellois were sentenced to death in Egypt for drug trafficking.
MARCH 25, 2013EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MUSLIM CONDEMNED TO DEATH FOR KILLING 2 COPTS
A Muslim man was sentenced to death after having been found guilty of killing two Coptic Christians
MARCH 9, 2013EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES IN FOOTBALL RIOT
An Egyptian court upheld the death sentences of 21 people for their role in a football (soccer) riot
JANUARY 29, 2013EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: GRAND MUFTI APPROVES DEATH PENALTY FOR 'INNOCENCE OF MUSLIMS' PRODUCERS
Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa approved a death sentence delivered in absentia for seven
JANUARY 26, 2013EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: CLASHES ERUPT AFTER COURT SENTENCES 21 TO DEATH IN FOOTBALL RIOT
An Egyptian judge sentenced 21 people to death for their roles in a football game riot last year, a ruling
- JANUARY 1, 2013EgyptDEATH PENALTY
The Egyptian Constitution makes no reference to the death penalty.
The Egyptian Constitution makes no reference to the death penalty.
- NOVEMBER 30, 2012EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: ISLAMISTS APPROVED A DRAFT CONSTITUTION
An Islamist-dominated council approved a draft constitution for Egypt, which rights experts
NOVEMBER 28, 2012EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 8 CHRISTIANS SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER CONTROVERSIAL ANTI-ISLAM MOVIE
An Egyptian court has sentenced eight Christians to death over the release of the controversial film “Innocence of Muslims”, which triggered violent protests across the Muslim world in September.
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 14 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER SINAI ATTACKS
A court in the Suez Canal governorate of Ismailia, in Egypt, sentenced 14 militant Islamists to death
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2012EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: CRIMINAL COURT EXONERATES CONDEMNED GAMAA ISLAMIYA MEMBERS
In Egypt, the Beni Suef Criminal Court exonerated four members of Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya who had
- AUGUST 14, 2012EgyptDEATH PENALTY
an Egyptian court sentenced 14 Islamists...
an Egyptian court sentenced 14 Islamists...
- JUNE 19, 2012EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Saudi authorities executed two Egyptians who kidnapped a nine-year-old girl and tortured
Saudi authorities executed two Egyptians who kidnapped a nine-year-old girl and tortured
JUNE 2, 2012EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MUBARAK SENTENCED TO LIFE, PROTESTS ERUPT
Hosni Mubarak, toppled by an uprising last year after 30 years ruling Egypt, was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in killing protesters after a trial that sets a precedent for holding Middle East autocrats to account.
- MAY 28, 2012EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Neither Egyptian law experts nor political analysts...
Neither Egyptian law experts nor political analysts...
MAY 14, 2012EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: POLICEMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
an Egyptian court in Minya sentenced a Muslim man to death for the killing and wounding
- MARCH 21, 2012EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: SUSPECT SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER VILLAGE MASSACRE OF 15
In Egypt, Banha Criminal Court sentenced one person to death and six others to prison in
- MARCH 18, 2012EgyptDEATH PENALTY
an Egyptian military court acquitted Mohammed al-Zawahiri...
an Egyptian military court acquitted Mohammed al-Zawahiri...
- MARCH 16, 2012Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed an Egyptian convicted of murdering a citizen of the kingdom
Saudi Arabia executed an Egyptian convicted of murdering a citizen of the kingdom
- MARCH 12, 2012EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: POLICEMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING A COPT DAYS AHEAD OF UPRISING
In Egypt, Menya's Criminal Court has decided to sentence low-ranking policeman
- MARCH 7, 2012EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FIRST MILITARY VICTIM SINCE UPRISING
The Supreme Military Court has ordered the death penalty on a couple of civilians for killing
- MARCH 2, 2012EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR TORTURING WIFE TO DEATH
An Egypt court in Shebeen al-Koum, a prominent village in Menufiya, in the Nile Delta region north of Cairo, handed the death sentence to a man who tortured and killed his wife in 2010.
- FEBRUARY 14, 2012EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT REPEALS DEATH SENTENCE OF BOMBING SUSPECTS
Egypt has quashed death sentences against three men convicted of involvement in attacks
- JANUARY 28, 2012EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: MUBARAK ASKS WORLD LEADERS TO SAVE HIM FROM EXECUTION
Deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak sent letters to nine world leaders with
JANUARY 19, 2012EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN CHARGED WITH KILLING SALAFI SHEIKH AND WIFE
the Giza Criminal Court gave the death sentence to 35-year-old Mohamed
JANUARY 14, 2012EgyptDEATH PENALTYUNITED NATIONS: BAN KI-MOON, NO DEATH PENALTY FOR MUBARAK
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, in an interview published in London, urged
- JANUARY 1, 2012EgyptDEATH PENALTY
The Egyptian Constitution makes no reference to the death penalty.
The Egyptian Constitution makes no reference to the death penalty.
DECEMBER 21, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 2 EXECUTED FOR KILLING FILIPINO TRUCK DRIVER
two Egyptian nationals convicted of murdering a Filipino truck driver were executed in Riyadh, the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency.
- DECEMBER 5, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: POLICEMAN GETS 2ND DEATH PENALTY
a Cairo court handed down a second death sentence to a fugitive Egyptian police officer
OCTOBER 10, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT EXECUTES MAN FOR 2010 COPTIC SHOOTING
Egypt executed a man for killing six Christians and one Muslim in a shooting in 2010.