During the month of August, Egyptian courts issued death sentences to 17 defendants in 14 cases. Additionally, 36 defendants' papers were referred to the Grand Mufti in 15 other cases.
Tags: The excessive use of capital punishment
During the month of July, Egyptian courts issued death sentences to 36 defendants in 20 cases. Among them, 2 were issued final verdicts that could not be appealed.
18 Aug 2022
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights joins the World Day Against the Death Penalty, which aimed in the past year to focus on women who have been sentenced to death, those who have been executed and women at risk of being sentenced to death. EIPR’s position has been and remains to call for the suspension of the death penalty until a broad societal dialogue is opened about its deterrent effect.
By the end of October 2020, the justice system in Egypt had carried out the largest number of executions (in different cases of a varying nature) since it began its expansion of the application of death penalty in the last five years. A total of 53 people were executed during the course of October, the last of these executions took place on October 28 when four convicts were executed in a judgement related to the killing of 17 people in a nightclub fire in Agouza.
