Responding to the news that Egyptian authorities have today executed nine men convicted after a grossly unfair trial for the 2015 killing of the country’s former Public Prosecutor, Najia Bounaim, Amnesty International’s North Africa Campaigns Director said: “By carrying out the executions of these nine men today Egypt has demonstrated an absolute disregard for the […]
Amnesty International has condemned the disgraceful execution on Wednesday of nine Egyptian prisoners who rights groups say were unfairly convicted. “By carrying out the executions of these nine men today Egypt has demonstrated an absolute disregard for the right to life,” said Najia Nounaim, Amnesty International’s North Africa Campaigns Director Egypt hanged the nine men in
Egyptian authorities must immediately halt the execution of nine prisoners whom Amnesty International has learned could be put to death as soon as tomorrow morning. The men were convicted after an unfair trial over the 2015 killing of Egypt’s former public prosecutor, and have been moved from their prison cells to the appeals prison in
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The severity of the Egyptian authorities’ crackdown on dissidents in recent years has left many activists unwilling to defy the regime of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The waves of political activism that preceded the 2011 revolution and peaked in the wake of that uprising have been fading since the military coup of July 2013. Fewer
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Egypt’s parliament began debate Wednesday on constitutional amendments that would extend presidential terms from four to six years and could see current President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi remain in office until 2034. The proposals would also grant Sisi more power over the judiciary and the military more control over the state. Egypt’s army played a pivotal
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