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    Egypt: 9 from one family sentenced to death for gruesome murder

    By Ramadan Al Sherbini
    Gulf News

    They were convicted on killing man, mutilating his body after marriage row

    An Egyptian court had sentenced nine members of one family to death after convicting them of murdering a man and mutilating his body, local media report.

    The convicts are a man, his wife, their three sons, his brother, the latter’s wife and their two sons.

    The preliminary death verdict was delivered by a criminal court in Minya city in south Egypt.

    The ruling will be referred to the nation’s highest Islamic authority, the Republic’s Mufti, for approval, a legal procedure in the country in cases involving death sentences.

    The case is related to a fight between two families over a marriage dispute

    During the violence, one family, wielding long knives and sticks, ambushed the other, killed one of them and injured his son.

    After the murder, they mutilated the dead body and moved a car over it, according to Al Shorouk newspaper.

    The nine accused were arrested and put on trial.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/gulfnew...der-1.91432321

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    Egypt's Grand Mufti upholds death sentence for Salma Bahgat's killer

    Islam Mohamed stabbed his classmate 31 times after she rejected his romantic advances

    By Kamal Tabikha
    The National

    An Egyptian court on Monday upheld the death sentence for a man who murdered a university student in the agricultural province of Sharqia.

    Islam Mohamed was found guilty of stabbing his classmate Salma Bahgat in the city of Zagazig in August after she repeatedly rejected his romantic advances. The incident shook the nation.

    Though the court had already issued the death penalty, the ruling had been under review by the country’s Grand Mufti since October, a routine step in Egypt.

    A court official said in October that Mohamed was given a psychiatric evaluation by medical professionals who determined he was sane when committing his crime, making him fully responsible for the premeditated murder. He also announced his intent to carry out the murder on social media hours before committing the crime.

    A forensics report at the time of the murder showed that Bahgat, who was killed at the entrance of a building in Zagazig, was stabbed 31 times.

    Security camera footage showed the killer pacing in the lobby, holding the knife he used to kill Bahgat while her body could be seen on the floor behind him. There were more than 15 eyewitnesses.

    Bahgat’s murder followed that of Nayera Ashraf, another university student murdered by a classmate whose romantic advances she rejected.

    Ashraf’s killer, Mohamed Adel, was sentenced to death by hanging in July.

    The string of murders has raised concerns for women in Egypt, particularly at the nation’s universities.

    In Egypt, civilians sentenced to death are hanged, while military executions are typically carried out by firing squad.

    https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena...ahgats-killer/

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    Egypt executes killer of university student Nayera Ashraf

    Stabbing of 21-year-old woman outside Mansoura University shook the nation and sparked a debate about gender-based violence in Egypt

    By Kamal Tabikha
    The National

    An Egyptian man who stabbed a young woman to death outside their university in Mansoura last year was executed by hanging on Wednesday morning,

    Mohamed Adel attacked Nayera Ashraf, 21, in broad daylight outside the Mansoura University campus in June last year.

    The case gained international attention and highlighted the problem of gender-based violence in Egypt.

    Ashraf’s father, who was interviewed by local news outlets after the execution, said that while he was not happy because “my daughter will never return to me”, he respected that “God’s justice was served”.

    Adel’s legal team had submitted several appeals against his death sentence, which was announced by a Mansoura criminal court a month after the murder. His final appeal, to the Court of Cassation, was rejected on February 9.

    The killing grabbed nationwide attention after graphic footage of the attack, filmed by students and security cameras, was circulated online, with millions of Egyptians offering condolences. Several women dropped out of Mansoura University over fears for their safety.

    The murder also sparked a debate about relationships after Adel confessed during his trial that he plotted to kill Ashraf because his marriage proposal to her had been rejected.

    Many people expressed sympathy for Adel and called for a lighter penalty, including the high-profile lawyer Farid El Deeb, who defended former president Hosni Mubarak during his trial after the 2011 uprising that deposed him.

    Mr El Deeb offered to appeal against the verdict on behalf of Adel, but passed away in October after a battle with cancer.

    A few days after Ashraf's murder, the body of Egyptian television presenter Shaimaa Gamal, who had been missing for two weeks, was found buried in the garden of a private residence on the outskirts of Cairo. She had suffered severe head injuries and her face was disfigured by nitric acid.

    In September, her husband, a prominent judge, and his driver, an accomplice who decided to come clean and exposed the crime, were both sentenced to death.

    Two months after Ashraf's murder, Salma Bahgat, 22, a university student, was stabbed to death in the city of Zagazig by a male colleague whose romantic advances she rejected. In October Bahgat’s killer was sentenced to death.

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    Minister halts deportation of Montreal man facing death sentence in Egypt

    By Laura Osman
    The Montreal Gazette

    A Montreal man who was set to be deported from Canada to Egypt, where he faces a death sentence, was given a last-minute reprieve Wednesday as the federal immigration minister intervened in his case and prevented his removal.

    Dr. Ezzat Gouda was ordered to return to Egypt by Nov. 1, despite claims that he would be persecuted and killed because of his political affiliations in the aftermath of the Arab Spring revolution.

    Gouda, a retired obstetrician, said he showed Canadian officials court documents that prove he has been sentenced to death in Egypt, but was told they were too vague and insufficient for his refugee claim to be accepted.

    He was found guilty in absentia in connection with two demonstrations that turned violent in 2013.

    In a statement, he said that on the morning of his scheduled deportation, he feared he would be apprehended and killed when he landed in his home country.

    “I woke up wanting to give up on life,” Gouda said.

    As he prepared to board a flight back to Egypt that day, he said he suffered a stroke and was taken to a hospital.

    Later on Wednesday, Gouda said he learned in an email from the Canada Border Services Agency that Immigration Minister Marc Miller had stopped the deportation.

    Miller declined to speak about the specific case, citing privacy and security concerns on Thursday.

    “Clearly, when someone faces the real threat of the death penalty being imposed, which we are opposed to as a government, our government does need to act,” Miller told reporters in Toronto.

    “Obviously, for people fleeing persecution for various reasons, they need to be looked at on an individual basis.”

    Gouda expressed his gratitude to Miller and Quebec Liberal MP Sameer Zuberi, as well as to the Egyptian community and the Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy for standing up for him.

    Zuberi did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    Gouda told the Canada Border Services Agency that was a member of the Freedom and Justice Party in Egypt, which was affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood group and came to power following the country’s 2012 elections.

    In 2013, Egypt’s army chief seized power in a military coup against the elected party’s government. Since then, Egyptian authorities have arrested thousands of the party’s members and Muslim Brotherhood supporters, labelling them as terrorists.

    After that, Gouda said his two sons were killed in pro-democracy, anti-military rallies. Men with weapons broke into his father’s house, where he was staying with several family members, he said, and his clinic was destroyed.

    He said he eventually fled to Djibouti in 2014, where he continued to work as a physician until he reached retirement age last year and had to leave because he wasn’t allowed to work.

    He was denied a visa to Canada and instead entered the country at the unofficial Roxham Road crossing between Quebec and New York state in March 2022.

    He told immigration officials he feared living in the United States because of increased hatred and racism toward Muslims.

    Gouda was denied refugee status in Canada in December 2022, documents show, because he did not prove that he would face more than a mere possibility of persecution and risk to his life.

    “I stood in support of democracy and against military rule,” he said in a statement. “I came here looking for safety but faced more persecution by the CBSA.”

    https://montrealgazette.com/news/loc...tence-in-egypt
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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