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Egypt sentenced 42 people to death in September
[PRESSTV] Egypt’s government sentenced 42 people to death in September amid calls for an end to executions ordered after "unfair" trials, a report says.The London-based al-Araby al-Jadeed newspaper reported on Wednesday that the figure was according to data provided by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, an independent human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... organization. The death sentence  ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...s were related to 13 different cases. The sentencing papers of 21 other defendants in five cases were referred to the grand mufti, Egypt’s top Moslem religious authority, who reviews all death sentences. The daily noted that Egyptian rights groups, including El Shehab for Human Rights, have launched a campaign, dubbed "Stop Executions in Egypt," on the occasion of the World Day Against the Death Penalty, which is observed every year on October 10. The campaigners say their movement is against "unfair, political rulings against dissidents" as well as trials that are "based on fake evidence, enforced disappearance and torture the defendants said they were subjected to in order to extract confessions from them in crimes they did not commit." "These death sentences were issued by illegal departments within the so-called terrorism departments and military courts that lack the minimum standards for fair trials as documented by the Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms, the international organizations and other rights groups." The daily said Egyptian rights groups have reported a large-scale expansion in the use of death penalty in Egypt as the frequency of death sentences issued in political and criminal cases increased in 2018. Posted by: Fred 2019-10-11 |
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