(CNN) The number of civilians sentenced to death in Egypt’s military courts leapt from 60 in 2016 to at least 112 in 2017, according to two independent rights groups. Human rights advocates say the alarming numbers recorded by the Egyptian Coordination for Rights & Freedoms and the Initiative for Personal Rights are shocking — but the […]
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(Middle East Monitor) Egyptian authorities executed five detainees on Tuesday despite the African Commission of Peoples and Human Rights (the African Commission) requesting Egypt suspend the sentences pending its investigation into their lawfulness. The African Commission is Africa’s highest Human Rights body and constituted by the African Charter. It is mandated to carry out tasks
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The Center for Egyptian-American Dialogue is built on a vision and commitment to support a civil, democratic, and just Egyptian state. There is much work to be done with regard to the current political state of Egypt and the human rights crisis that has unfolded there since the Military Coup on July 3, 2013. In
