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.
Latest news
- FEBRUARY 25, 2019EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: TWO MONKS SENTENCED TO DEATH
An Egyptian court on 23 February 2019 handed down a preliminary death sentence against two monks for murdering a clergyman, according to Egypt's official MENA news agency.
FEBRUARY 25, 2019EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT CALLS FOR ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
Former Egyptian Vice-President Mohamed ElBaradei on 21 February 2019 decried Egypt’s frequent resort to capital punishment and called for the abolition of the practice.
FEBRUARY 21, 2019EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 15 EXECUTIONS IN FEBRUARY
15 people have so far been executed in Egypt in February alone (7th, 13th & 20th), all were condemned among many others (present & absent) for terrorism crimes.
- FEBRUARY 20, 2019EgyptDEATH PENALTY
HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS CALL FOR EGYPT TO END DEATH PENALTY
In a statement released on 11 February 2019, the Egyptian Front for Human Rights, the Committee for Justice, and the Arab Foundation for Civil and Political Rights called for an end to the death penalty in Egypt pending “a broad societal dialogue.”
FEBRUARY 20, 2019EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: NINE MEN EXECUTED OVER PROSECUTOR'S DEATH
Egyptian authorities executed nine young men on 20 February 2019 morning despite calls by rights groups to halt the executions over due process violations, a source close to their families told Middle East Eye.
- FEBRUARY 15, 2019EgyptDEATH PENALTY
TURKEY DEPORTS 28-YEAR-OLD EGYPTIAN WHO FACES DEATH PENALTY AT HOME
Turkey is investigating the deportation of an Egyptian citizen to Cairo after he reportedly sought asylum upon his arrival to Istanbul’s Ataturk airport last month, officials told Middle East Eye on 5 February 2019
FEBRUARY 14, 2019EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 3 MEN EXECUTED FOR KILLING POLICE OFFICER
Egypt executed three people on 13 February 2019, who were sentenced to death for the killing of a senior police officer during a raid in Cairo in 2013.
FEBRUARY 8, 2019EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 3 EXECUTED FOR 2014 MURDER OF JUDGE’S SON
Egyptian authorities executed three political prisoners on 7 February 2019, one year after they were sentenced to death on charges of killing the son of a judge, according to local rights activists.
- FEBRUARY 6, 2019EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: COURT REFERS PRELIMINARY DEATH SENTENCE FOR POLICEMAN CONVICTED OF MURDER TO GRAND MUFTI FOR REVIEW
A criminal court in Minya on 2 February 2019 said that it is seeking the grand mufti’s opinion on a preliminary death sentence for a police officer who was convicted of killing a Christian man and his son last December.
FEBRUARY 5, 2019EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 8 DEFENDANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SISI'S ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT CASE
Eight defendants out of 292 people accused of attempting to assassinate Egypt's President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and former Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef in Saudi Arabia, were sentenced to death on 4 February 2019.
FEBRUARY 4, 2019EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE, THREE CHILDREN
An Egyptian criminal court has sentenced to death a man for killing his wife and three children in their home in the Nile Delta’s Kafr El-Sheikh city, Ahram reported on 3 February 2019.
FEBRUARY 1, 2019EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: CABINET APPROVES DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG DEALERS
Egypt’s Cabinet on 30 January 2019 approved a draft law amending some provisions of Law No. 182 of 1960 on regulating the use of drugs and combating trafficking.
JANUARY 23, 2019EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: COURT REDUCES DEATH SENTENCES FOR 7 DEFENDANTS TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT, UPHOLDS LIFE SENTENCES FOR 14 OTHERS
The Court of Cassation on 20 January 2019 overturned death sentences against seven defendants in Case 851/2015, issuing life sentences for them instead, according to lawyer Amr Ahmed.
JANUARY 22, 2019EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES AGAINST 5 DEFENDANTS OVER TERROR CHARGES
Egypt's Court of Cassation upheld on 20 January 2019 death sentences against five defendants charged with terrorism.
JANUARY 21, 2019EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: COURT SENTENCES ONE MAN TO DEATH, ANOTHER TO 15 YEARS OVER TODDLER RAPE
A Cairo criminal court sentenced on 16 January 2019 one man to death and another to 15 years in prison over the rape and attempted murder of a toddler.
- JANUARY 1, 2019EgyptDEATH PENALTY
The Egyptian Constitution makes no reference to the death penalty.
The Egyptian Constitution makes no reference to the death penalty.
- DECEMBER 31, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt: Adel Abdel Nour El Sayed Soliman executed for murder
Egypt: Adel Abdel Nour El Sayed Soliman executed for murder
- DECEMBER 28, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: ISIS-AFFILIATED MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING CHRISTIAN DOCTOR
The Cairo Criminal Court handed a death sentence to an ISIS-affiliated man who killed a christian doctor in his clinic in Shubra, Asharq Al-Awsat reported on 23 December 2018.
DECEMBER 27, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: AT LEAST 581 SENTENCED TO DEATH, 32 EXECUTED IN FIRST 11 MONTHS OF 2018
Over 30 people were executed and nearly 600 death sentences were issued in Egypt in the first 11 months of 2018, according to a report issued on 22 December 2018 by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR).
- DECEMBER 5, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt: Karam Mohammed Abdel Radi executed for murder
5 December 2018: Karam Mohammed Abdel Radi executed for murder
- DECEMBER 4, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt: 5 people executed in Minya prison
4 December 2018: 5 people executed in Minya prison
DECEMBER 3, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: DEATH SENTENCES DROPPED AGAINST 2 CHARGED WITH PLANNING TO KILL ARMY OFFICERS
Egypt’s High Military Appeals Court accepted the petition filed by two defendants charged with membership in a cell that planned the assassination of army officers and politicians and committed other acts of violence and sabotage, middleeastmonitor.com re
- NOVEMBER 27, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST 10 OVER KILLING TOP PROSECUTOR
An Egyptian court on 25 November 2018 confirmed death sentence against 10 defendants over killing former public prosecutor in a bomb attack on his car in 2015, state-run Ahram newspapers reported on its website.
- NOVEMBER 26, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt: 5 defendants executed in Cairo prison
26 November 2018: 5 defendants executed in Cairo prison
- NOVEMBER 26, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: 17 ISLAMIC MILITANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR COPTIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH KILLINGS
17 Islamic militants were sentenced to death on 22 November 2018 for their role in multiple church bombings in Egypt that killed scores of Coptic Christians.
- NOVEMBER 19, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: ONE SENTENCED TO DEATH, SIX TO 10 YEARS IN 'TANTA TERRORIST CELL' CASE
The Cairo Criminal Court on 17 November 2018 sentenced one defendant involved in the case of "Tanta Terrorist Cell" to death.
- NOVEMBER 14, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST 80-YEAR-OLD QURAN TUTOR
The Egyptian government has upheld a death sentence against Sheikh Abdel Halim Gabreel, an 80-year-old Quran tutor, with Amnesty International campaigning for him to receive a presidential pardon, middleeastmonitor reported on 13 November 2018.
NOVEMBER 12, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: COURT OF CASSATION UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR 7 CONVICTED OF KILLING POLICEMAN
An Egyptian top court upheld on 11 November 2018 a previous death sentence against seven defendants convicted of killing a policeman in 2013, official MENA news agen
NOVEMBER 9, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: EIGHT ISIS JIHADISTS ARE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DEADLY ATTACK AGAINST SOLDIERS
An Egyptian military court on 7 November 2018 sentenced eight ISIS fighters to death for a deadly attack against an army checkpoint in 2016.
- NOVEMBER 8, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST TODDLER RAPIST IN FINAL RULING
A high Egyptian appeals court has upheld a death sentence against a man for raping a 20-month-old girl last year, a judicial source said on 7 November 2018, in a final ruling in a case that provoked widespread public outcry.