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
- MAY 31, 2006EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR STARTING FIRE
Egypt’s Upper Criminal Court sentenced Mohamed Moti Mohamed to death after finding him guilty of setting fire to a shop in the Musherib area of Doha in August 2004, resulting in one death.
MAY 8, 2006EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT. FEAR OF IMMINENT EXECUTION FOLLOWING UNFAIR TRIAL
Brothers Ezzat and Hamdi Ali Hanafi have been sentenced to death after an unfair trial and could be executed at any time, Amnesty International said.
- JANUARY 1, 2006EgyptDEATH PENALTY
The Egyptian Constitution makes no reference to the death penalty.
The Egyptian Constitution makes no reference to the death penalty.
- DECEMBER 14, 2005EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Ali Darman Agustri
Ali Darman Agustri
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2005EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT. TWO GANG LEADERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
a Cairo court sentenced two gang leaders to death and 58 defendants to prison terms varying between three years to life for involvement in kidnappings and violence in 2004 in Nakhilah, about 320km south of Cairo.
JULY 26, 2005LibyaDEATH PENALTYLIBYA. HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP CONFIRMS EXECUTION OF FOUR EGYPTIAN NATIONALS
The Libyan League for Human Rights has confirmed the execution, by firing squad, of four Egyptian nationals who, together with 11 other Egyptian expatriates, were "convicted" of "murder" by a Libyan court in 2004.
- JULY 18, 2005EgyptDEATH PENALTY
LIBYA. 4 EGYPTIANS EXECUTED
the Arab Centre for the Independence of the Judiciary and Legal Council, an Egyptian human rights group, said that Libyan authorities had recently executed four Egyptians on criminal charges.
JUNE 28, 2005EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT. COURT SENTENCES TWO MEN FOR LEADING GANG OF ARMS TRAFFICKERS
an Egyptian state security criminal court sentenced two brothers to death on charges of leading a gang of arms dealers and drug-traffickers.
- JUNE 8, 2005EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egyptian Grand Mufti Prof Dr Sheikh Ali Gouma endorsed the death sentence passed by...
Egyptian Grand Mufti Prof Dr Sheikh Ali Gouma endorsed the death sentence passed by a Cairo court on Ali Darman Agustri, an Indonesian national, for premeditated multiple murder.
- JUNE 6, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
the Abbsea state court in East Cairo, Egypt...
the Abbsea state court in East Cairo, Egypt, sentenced Indonesian national Ali Darman Agustri to death for premeditated multiple murder.
- APRIL 20, 2005EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
Egypt voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
- APRIL 19, 2005EgyptDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. GOVT URGED TO HELP INDONESIAN FACING DEATH PENALTY IN EGYPT
Ahamd Hosein Hutagalung, a member of the North Sumatra provincial legislative council, appaled to the government to help an Indonesian citizen, Ali Darman, who was facing the death sentence by decapitation in Egypt for allegedly killing a Malaysian, Zaki
- APRIL 18, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. EGYPTIAN BEHEADED FOR RAPE, MURDER
Saudi Arabia executed Emad al-Wakil, an Egyptian man, for raping and killing a woman, the country’s interior ministry said.
- JANUARY 1, 2005EgyptDEATH PENALTY
The Egyptian Constitution makes no reference to the death penalty.
The Egyptian Constitution makes no reference to the death penalty.
- SEPTEMBER 22, 2004EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Six men from the same family were hanged in Egypt on...
Six men from the same family were hanged in Egypt on after being convicted of the massacre of 22 members of a rival clan two years ago, judicial sources said
- AUGUST 12, 2004EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egyptian national Sayed Faruq Ibrahim was sentenced...
Egyptian national Sayed Faruq Ibrahim was sentenced to death for strangling to death the four-year-old boy of an Omani diplomat after a breaking into a house in April 2004
- JULY 30, 2004EgyptDEATH PENALTY
It was revealed that Egypt's top military state security...
It was revealed that Egypt's top military state security court commuted to life imprisonment the death penalty imposed in his absence on Islamist leader Hamed Abbes
- JULY 4, 2004EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Two Egyptians were sentenced to death for raping a...
Two Egyptians were sentenced to death for raping a woman and two other men jailed for helping kidnap the victim
- JUNE 13, 2004EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egyptian lawyer Hanan Mohammed Ali Rashed was sentenced...
Egyptian lawyer Hanan Mohammed Ali Rashed was sentenced to death for killing her husband in collusion with her lover
- APRIL 28, 2004EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Hassan Ramadhan Mahmoud, a shoe-shiner, and his cousin...
Hassan Ramadhan Mahmoud, a shoe-shiner, and his cousin Ramadhan Mohammed Abu el-Magd Azab were sentenced to death after being found guilty of killing Mahmoud's wife's four-year-old daughter from her first marriage
- APRIL 21, 2004EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt voted against the resolution on the death penalty...
Egypt voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 11, 2004EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, arson, rape, hijacking, espionage, drug trafficking, political and military offences.
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, arson, rape, hijacking, espionage, drug trafficking, political and military offences.
- JANUARY 29, 2004EgyptDEATH PENALTY
The High State Security Court, Egypt, commuted the...
The High State Security Court, Egypt, commuted the death sentence of Anwar Hamed Abbas, an Islamic militant, to life in prison
- JANUARY 16, 2004EgyptDEATH PENALTY
The Lebanese government announced in a statement that...
The Lebanese government announced in a statement that six prisoners on death row had their sentences reduced to life in prison with hard labour
- NOVEMBER 12, 2003EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Ashraf Mahmud, a 46-year-old Egyptian, was sentenced...
Ashraf Mahmud, a 46-year-old Egyptian, was sentenced to hang for having murdered his three children, his wife and her lover, court sources said
- MAY 29, 2003EgyptDEATH PENALTY
According to "Jordan Times", the Criminal Court sentenced...
According to "Jordan Times", the Criminal Court sentenced Ahmad, a 25-year-old Egyptian national, to death after convicting him of the murder of his former employer in Sahab, Jordan, in September 2002
- MAY 15, 2003EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Six men from the same family were sentenced to hang...
Six men from the same family were sentenced to hang for staging a vendetta ambush in 2002 that killed 22 people from another clan in southern Egypt
- MAY 3, 2003EgyptDEATH PENALTY
It was decided that El Said Hassan Al-Mokhis, an Egyptian...
It was decided that El Said Hassan Al-Mokhis, an Egyptian citizen arrested in Uruguay in 1999, be extradited to his homeland to face charges for the 1997 massacre of 22 European tourists at Luxor Temple
- MARCH 31, 2003EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Hanan Muhammad Rashid, female, and Muhammad Ahmad 'Abd...
Hanan Muhammad Rashid, female, and Muhammad Ahmad 'Abd al-Salam, male, are at imminent risk of execution
- JANUARY 1, 2003EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, arson, rape,...
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, arson, rape, hijacking, espionage, drug trafficking political and military offenses