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
OCTOBER 10, 2011ItalyDEATH PENALTYDEATH PENALTY: D'ELIA (HANDS OFF CAIN)- EXECUTION IN EGYPT IS A TERRIBLE SIGN
regarding the execution today in Egypt of Hamam El-Kamouny, Hands Off Cain Secretary
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: ASHTON, EU WORKS FOR THE ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
the European Union will work for the abolition of capital punishment in Egypt, EU High
- AUGUST 17, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT’S MILITARY COURT SENTENCES 5 TO DEATH FOR ROBBERY, MURDER
an Egyptian military court sentenced five unidentified men to death after they robbed a gas station and killed a police commander during the getaway, the official MENA news agency reported. Seven others who were arrested after the May robbery in the Red S
- AUGUST 9, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: MAJORITY WANT MUBARAK EXECUTED
some 67 percent of Egyptians who took part in a voluntary online poll earlier this month support the death penalty for ex-President Hosni Mubarak. 22 percent oppose his execution.
JUNE 28, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: CLERIC APPROVES COP'S DEATH SENTENCE
in Egypt, Islamic cleric Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa affirmed the death sentence handed
JUNE 26, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: POLICEMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING PROTESTERS DURING UPRISING
A Cairo court sentenced in absentia a policeman to death for the murder of protesters during
- JUNE 22, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: DEATH SENTENCE FOR BUS DRIVER WHO SHOT DEAD 6 COLLEAGUES
the Giza Criminal Court in Egypt sentenced Mahmoud Suweilam, the Arab Contractors bus driver
- MAY 23, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: CRIMINAL COURT HANDS DOWN FIRST DEATH SENTENCE IN REVOLUTION KILLINGS
A criminal court in Cairo sentenced to death a police officer for killing protesters, the first such penalty
- MAY 17, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES FOUR TO BE HANGED
An Egyptian military court sentenced a 17-year-old and three other men to be hanged
- MAY 16, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: MOHAMED AL-ZAWAHIRI APPEALS DEATH SENTENCE
Abdel Aziz al-Gamal and Mohamed al-Zawahiri appealed their death sentences in an Egyptian military court. Mohamed al-Zawahiri was sentenced to death for terrorist activities.
- APRIL 25, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT: DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD FOR EGYPTIAN IN COMPATRIOT KILL
the Kuwaiti Court of Appeals upheld the verdict of the lower court which had sentenced an Egyptian to death for killing and robbing a compatriot caretaker, Al-Anba daily reported.
- APRIL 11, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: THREE MEN TO HANG FOR RAPE
an Egyptian military court in the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya sentenced Mohammed
- APRIL 1, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt's military decided to authorize execution as a punishment for convicted rapists.
Egypt's military decided to authorize execution as a punishment for convicted rapists.
- MARCH 10, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTY
the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces issued a decree...
the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces issued a decree...
- MARCH 3, 2011JordanDEATH PENALTY
"DEMOCRATIC" EGYPT SENDS APOSTATES TO THEIR DEATH
a major survey conducted in Egypt and in six other majority Muslim countries found an overwhelming majority in Egypt wanted those who commit adultery to be stoned and 84% wanted those who abandon the Muslim religion to be put to death.
- FEBRUARY 20, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPTIAN CONVICTED OF KILLING COPTS TO HANG
Egypt's State Security Emergency Court ratified the death sentence against Mohammed
- FEBRUARY 8, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: TEENAGE AWAITS 'DEATH OR LIFE' IN SAUDI
an Egyptian boy who was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for murdering a girl hopes the victim’s family might pardon him. In 2004, Ahmed was arrested by police in the eastern town of Dammam for stabbing the three-year-old Egyptian girl, Walaa, 30 times.
- JANUARY 27, 2011KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT: MAN WHO STABBED HIS FILIPINA WIFE 31 TIMES GETS DEATH SENTENCE
Egyptian national Attalla Mohammad was sentenced to death in Kuwait for killing his Filipina wife Norhaisa Nasa Andao by stabbing her 31 times in a beauty saloon after their relationship soured.
JANUARY 25, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTYUNITED ARAB EMIRATES: DEATH SENTENCE FOR PREMEDITATED MURDER
in the United Arab Emirates, the Dubai Cassation Court upheld the death sentence awarded to
JANUARY 16, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPTIAN HANDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR COPT KILLINGS
A Muslim man was condemned to death in south Egypt for the January 2010 slaying
- JANUARY 1, 2011EgyptDEATH PENALTY
The Egyptian Constitution makes no reference to the death penalty.
The Egyptian Constitution makes no reference to the death penalty.
- DECEMBER 23, 2010EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: MILITANT'S DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED TO JAIL TERM
Judge Abdullah Abu Hashem of the Egyptian state security court commuted
DECEMBER 16, 2010EgyptDEATH PENALTYUAE: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY
Judge Moustapha Shinawi of the Appeals court in the United Arab Emirates upheld
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2010EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: CAIRO COURT REDUCES TYCOON’S DEATH SENTENCE
the death sentence of Egyptian real estate tycoon Hesham Talaat Moustafa for paying an assassin to kill Suzanne Tamim in Dubai in 2008 was commuted to 15 years in prison.
- JUNE 30, 2010EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: DEATH PENALTY REINSTATED FOR MURDER
an Egyptian court reinstated the death sentence of blacksmith Mahmoud Sayyid Abdel Hafiz Essawi for murdering Heba al-Akkad, 23, in November 2008, the official Mena news agency reported.
- JUNE 28, 2010EgyptDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI SENTENCED TO DEATH IN EGYPT FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
the criminal court of Ismailia, in northeast Egypt, found Saudi Arabian national Lafi Munther Farhhan...
- JUNE 23, 2010EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT COURT SENTENCES MILITANT LEADER TO DEATH
top Egyptian Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiya leader Abdel Hamid Musa Abu Aqrab was sentenced
- JUNE 16, 2010EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPTIAN FACES DEATH PENALTY FOR RICH DUO'S MURDER
an Egyptian court sentenced Mahmoud Essawy to death for murdering Heba Ibrahim Al-Akad, 23, and Nadine Khaled Gamal during a robbery and stealing a cellphone and 400 Egyptian pounds.
MAY 30, 2010NigeriaDEATH PENALTYLIBYA: 18 PEOPLE EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD
eighteen people including nationals of Nigeria, Chad and Egypt were executed in Libya after being convicted of premeditated murder, Libya's online Qurina news website reported.
- MAY 25, 2010EgyptDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: AL-JUNAIDI SENTENCE ENDORSED
the Court of Cassation in Medina, Saudi Arabia, ratified the death sentence handed to Egyptian nationals Muhammad Al-Junaidi and his sister...