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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JULY 2, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: COURT OF CASSATION SENTENCES ONE MONK TO DEATH, ANOTHER TO LIFE FOR ABBOT'S KILLING
Egypt’s highest court on 1st July 2020 upheld a death sentence for a former monk convicted of killing an abbot in a desert monastery north of Cairo in 2018.
JULY 1, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MUM SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR FEEDING DAUGHTER SULPHURIC ACID
An Egyptian court has sentenced a housewife to death by hanging for killing her baby daughter by feeding her a caustic substance at a private medical clinic in Beheira Governorate, Egyptian media reported on 1st July 2020.
- JUNE 30, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: LIBYAN MILITANT AL MESMARI EXECUTED
Egypt has executed Libyan militant Abdul Rahim Mohammed Al Mesmari, the mastermind behind deadly attack on security forces in Bahariya Oasis in 2017, the Ministry of Defence said in a video statement on its official account on YouTube on 27 June 2020.
- JUNE 27, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: EXECUTED ABDUL RAHIM MOHAMMED ABDULLAH AL-MESMARI, 25 YEARS OLD LIBYAN TERRORIST
On June 27, 2020 it took place the execution Abdul Rahim Mohammed Abdullah Al-Mesmari at Cairo Appeal Court.
JUNE 15, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER FAILED 2018 ALEXANDRIA SECURITY CHIEF ATTACK
The Cairo Criminal Court has handed down death sentences to three defendants over the failed assassination of Alexandria's Chief of the Security Directorate Mostafa Al-Nemr in March 2018, the Daily News reported on 14 June 2020.
APRIL 30, 2020Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: EGYPTIAN ENGINEER ON DEATH ROW EXONERATED
An Egyptian engineer who was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia in 2017 on charges of smuggling drugs to the Kingdom was acquitted of charges, his brother told Egypt Today on 26 April 2020, saying the ruling is almost final.
- MARCH 30, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER DAMAGING PIPELINE, CAUSING 9 DEATHS
A criminal court on 26 March 2020 sentenced five people to death, over damaging a petroleum pipeline and causing the death of nine people in November in northern Egypt.
MARCH 13, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 4 MEN ARRESTED AS TEENS ESCAPE DEATH PENALTY
Four Egyptians who were arrested as teenagers escaped the death penalty on 9 March 2020 after a court in Cairo acquitted them of all their charges, rights group Reprieve confirmed.
MARCH 11, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: UN EXPERTS CALL FOR RELEASE OF FOUR MINORS FACING DEATH SENTENCES
UN human rights experts on 6 March 2020 urged the Egyptian authorities to release four Egyptians minors who have been tried through a process tainted with credible allegations of torture to extract confessions and who are now facing death sentences in a m
- MARCH 4, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: FIVE PRISONERS, INCLUDING A WOMAN, WERE EXECUTED IN THE GENERAL PRISON OF TANTA FOR PREMEDITATED MURDER
On March 4, 2020 it took place the execution of 5 defendants, including a woman, sentenced to death by hanging for having committed premeditated murder.
- MARCH 4, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: EXECUTED ISLAMIC TERRORIST HISHAM EL-ASHMAWY
On March 4,2020 it took place the execution of Hisham el-Ashmawy.
MARCH 4, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: TOP MILITANT HISHAM AL-ASHMAWY EXECUTED
Top Egyptian militant suspect Hisham al-Ashmawy was executed on 4 March 2020 following his conviction over several high-profile attacks, the country’s military spokesman said.
MARCH 2, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 37 SENTENCED TO DEATH INCLUDING TOP MILITANT LEADER
An Egyptian court on 2nd March 2020 sentenced to death 37 defendants, including one of the country’s most high-profile militants, following their conviction of terrorism-related charges.
FEBRUARY 25, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 8 EXECUTED IN ONE DAY
Eight men were executed on 24 February 2020 in Egypt in what is thought to be the first death sentences carried out in the country so far in 2020.
- FEBRUARY 24, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: EIGHT TERRORISTS WERE EXECUTED FOR INVOLVEMENT IN THE BOMBING OF THREE CHURCHES IN CAIRO, TANTA AND ALEXANDRIA
On February 24, 2020 it took place the execution of eight prisoners in Alexandria Prison.
- FEBRUARY 22, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: THREE PRISONERS WERE EXECUTED IN CAIRO APPEAL COURT FOR MURDER
On February 22, 2020 it took place the execution by hanging of three defendants at Cairo Appeal Court.
FEBRUARY 19, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 5 EXECUTED FOR ABDUCTING, MURDERING 4-YEAR-OLD GIRL. TWO WERE WOMEN
Egyptian security authorities have executed five persons from the same family after they were convicted of abducting and killing a four-year-old child, Middle East Monitor reported on 5 August 2019.
- FEBRUARY 2, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: TERRORIST LEADER ASHMAWY, 36 OTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 54 ASSASSINATIONS
A Cairo criminal court on 1st February 2020 handed preliminary death sentences to leading terrorist Hisham Ashmawy and 36 others in the case known as Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, convicting them of executing over 50 assassination attacks on policemen.
JANUARY 31, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING 7-MEMBER FAMILY
A defendant, who is charged with killing seven members of the same family and setting their house on fire in Kafr el-Dawar city in Beheira govenorate, was sentenced to death on 30 January 2020.
JANUARY 29, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER FAILED ASSASSINATION
An Egyption court handed preliminary death sentences on 27 January 2020 to three defendants over a failed assassination of Alexandria’s security director in March 2018.
- JANUARY 21, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: FIVE PRISONERS EXECUTED FOR MURDER
On January 21, 2020 five prisoners were executed at Zagazig Prison.
- JANUARY 18, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: FIVE PRISONERS, INCLUDING A WOMAN, WERE EXECUTED FOR PREMEDITATED MURDER
On January 18, 2020 it took place the execution by hanging of five defendants at Tanta General Prison.
- JANUARY 16, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT ORDERS RETRIAL OF MONKS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BISHOP'S MURDER
Egypt's highest civilian court on 15 January 2020 ordered a retrial of two monks sentenced to death for murdering a bishop at a Coptic Christian monastery.
- JANUARY 16, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: AHMED SALIM SHAKER OMAR EXECUTED FOR A TRIPLE MURDER
January 16, 2020: Ahmed Salim Shaker Omar was executed in Damietta prison.
- JANUARY 7, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES FORMER MILITARY OFFICER TO DEATH OVER TERRORISM
An Egyptian military court sentenced on 27 November 2019 a former military officer to death over plotting and carrying out terrorist operations in Egypt, the Egyptian military spokesman said in a statement.
- JANUARY 1, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTY
The Egyptian Constitution makes no reference to the death penalty.
The Egyptian Constitution makes no reference to the death penalty.
DECEMBER 16, 2019EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: SYMPOSIUM ON THE DEATH PENALTY
A two-day symposium on the modernization of the penal system was held in Cairo on December 14-15.
DECEMBER 9, 2019EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING 3 POLICEMEN IN 2016 ROBBERY
An Egyptian criminal court handed death sentences to four people over the 2016 killing of three policemen during a robbery attempt in Nile Delta’s Sharqiya governorate, Ahram Online reported on 7 December 2019.
DECEMBER 2, 2019EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: COURT HANDS DEATH SENTENCE TO 'IMBABA CELL' DEFENDANT
Giza Criminal Court on 30 November 2019 sentenced to death a defendant in the case known in media as "Imbaba Cell," over accusations including targeting Christians and armed forces.
- NOVEMBER 28, 2019EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING CHILD
Giza’s Criminal Court, chaired by Justice Ibrahim Abdullah, has decided to sentence a housewife called Hanyat to death for murdering a child girl in Giza, south to Cairo, See News reported on 28 November 2019.