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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OCTOBER 16, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING POLICEMEN
A court in Egypt on 14 October 2018 sentences three people to death for their involvement in the killing of 10 policemen and for belonging to an extremist group, a judicial source said.
OCTOBER 15, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES 17 PEOPLE TO DEATH FOR THE ATTACK ON COPTIC CHURCHES
A military court in Egypt has sentenced to death 17 people, held responsible for a series of attacks against some Coptic Christian churches in the country
OCTOBER 9, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES FOUR JIHADISTS TO DEATH
An Egyptian military court has sentenced four jihadists to death over attacks which killed 20 police officers, a judicial source said on 7 October 2018.
- OCTOBER 3, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT COURT CANCELS DEATH, IMPRISONMENT SENTENCES FOR ‘RETURNEES FROM LIBYA’ CASE, ORDERS RETRIAL
Egypt’s Court of Cassation ruled on October 2, 2018 to accept the appeal filed by defendants in the “Returnees from Libya” case, cancelling their death and imprisonment sentences and ordering a retrial.
OCTOBER 2, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: COURT ORDERS RETRIAL OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LEADER
An Egyptian court has ordered a retrial of the Muslim Brotherhood's leader Mohamed Badie and other senior figures from the banned group starting on Oct. 7, judicial sources and state news agency MENA said on September 30, 2018.
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT SENTENCES 20 TO DEATH, JAILS SCORES OVER POLICE KILLINGS
Egypt’s Court of Cassation on September 24, 2018 upheld death sentences for 20 people convicted of killing 13 policemen during violent unrest after the military overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: 65 PEOPLE SENTENCED OVER 2013 VIOLENCE
An Egyptian court on September 23, 2018 sentenced 64 people to varying prison terms and one man to death over violence in 2013 when the military overthrew the elected Islamist president.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MAN EXECUTED FOR MURDER BY HANGING
Abdel Rahman al-Gabarty was hanged on June 24 2018 after a death sentence in Case 119/2016, charged with the March 2015 killing of a high-ranking police official in the Suez area of east Cairo.
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT ISSUED 100 DEATH SENTENCES IN JUNE
Egyptian courts issued 41 death sentences, referred 60 other cases to the country’s Grand Mufti for approval, and executed one person in June, the Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) announced on July 10, 2018.
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPTIAN COURT SENTENCES 3 MEN TO DEATH FOR 2013 VIOLENCE
An Egyptian court sentenced three men to death and another 41 to life imprisonment on September 12, 2018 for their part in a 2013 attack on a police station south of Cairo.
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: COURT OF CASSATION ENDORSES FINAL DEATH SENTENCES FOR 2 DEFENDANTS IN TERROR CASE
Egypt's Court of Cassation has endorsed on June 26, 2018 final death sentences for two defendants in a terrorism-related case.
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt: Hamada Riad Al Adham executed in Cairo prison
12 September 2018: Hamada Riad Al Adham executed in Cairo prison
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt 2 sentenced to death for ordinary crimes
10 April 2018: a criminal court sentenced two brothers to death after their conviction for killing a contractor and setting his corpse on fire.
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT COURT SENTENCES 75 TO DEATH OVER DEADLY 2013 PROTESTS
Cairo Criminal Court has sentenced 75 protesters to death, 47 life sentences, and heavy prison sentences ranging from 15 to five years to 612 people in a mass trial over a 2013 protest in support of the Muslim Brotherhood.
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt: Six executed for murder in Cairo Prison
2 September 2018: Six executed for murder in Cairo Prison
- AUGUST 30, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt: Five executions carried out in Zagazig Public Prison
30 August 2018: Five executions carried out in Zagazig Public Prison
AUGUST 8, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: COURT SENTENCES 45 TO DEATH OVER DEADLY FIGHT
An Egyptian criminal court sentenced 45 people to death over killing three people in an armed fight in the coastal province of Alexandria.
- JULY 29, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt: Abdul Rashid Ahmed Abdel- Rahim executed in the case of a murder
29 July 2018: Abdul Rashid Ahmed Abdel- Rahim executed in the case of a murder
- JULY 28, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT COURT HANDS DOWN 75 DEATH SENTENCES
An Egyptian court sentenced to death 75 extremists, including Muslim Brotherhood leaders, and referred what was the largest single case of capital punishment convictions to the country’s top religious authority.
- JULY 12, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPTIAN COURT SENTENCE 13 TO DEATH FOR PRISON ESCAPE
In the city of Ismailiyah, the local criminal court sentenced to death 13 people, witnesses and local newspapers said
- JULY 12, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt: Executes 6 for kidnapping and murder
12 July 2018: Executes 6 for kidnapping and murder
JULY 12, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 18 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLINGS
In the Nile Delta town of El-Zagazig, the local criminal court sentenced 18 people to death in the killings of the policeman and guard, MENA said.
JUNE 26, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: CAIRO CRIMINAL COURT ISSUES PRELIMINARY DEATH SENTENCES FOR SIX CONVICTED IN QALYUBIYA POLICE CHECKPOINT ATTACK
Cairo Criminal Court issued preliminary death sentences on six people convicted of attacking a Qalyubiya police checkpoint, killing one sergeant, in 2016.
- JUNE 14, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: 11 DEATH SENTENCES
An Egyptian criminal court referred the preliminary death sentences of 11 members of the terrorist-designated Muslim Brotherhood organization
- JUNE 11, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT - 7 DEATH SENTENCES
FOR KILLING POLICEMAN
- MAY 14, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT COURT ASKS MUFTI TO WEIGH IN ON DEATH SENTENCES FOR 13
An Egyptian court has referred the case of 13 defendants facing terrorism charges to the country's top religious authority, the Grand Mufi, for a non-binding opinion on whether they can be potentially executed as the prosecution seeks.
- APRIL 28, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: 6 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 2013 VIOLENCE
Egypt’s highest appellate court confirmed the death penalty for six people in connection with violence in the wake of the ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
- APRIL 27, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
some articles in the Code of Criminal Procedures were amended.
some articles in the Code of Criminal Procedures were amended.
- APRIL 23, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
MURDERER OF ADIB EGYPT BANK CEO NEVINE LOUTFY SENTENCED TO DEATH
Egypt’s Giza Criminal Court handed down a death sentence to the killer of Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) CEO Nevine Loutfy, who was found dead inside her house in Cairo’s 6 October City in 2016.
- APRIL 17, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt 1 sentenced to death for ordinary crimes
17 April 2018: the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced one person to death for killing a Yemeni student in the course of a robbery.