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    Egyptian court gives death penalty to 12 Morsi supporters

    The 12 were among 23 defendants charged with murder or attempted murder over the shooting during a police raid on an Islamist stronghold in the capital on September 19 that came amid the bloody crackdown that followed the army's overthrow of Morsi in July.

    The accused were also charged with "membership of a jihadist organisation". The other 11 remain on the run.

    An Egyptian court Wednesday handed down a 15-year jail term to prominent pro-democracy campaigner Alaa Abdel-Fattah, on charges of organizing an unauthorized protest.

    It was the latest such conviction for a pro-democracy activist who had been prominent in the 2011 ouster of former presient Hosny Mubarak.

    Abdel-Fattah was also charged with: attacking a police officer and stealing his walkie-talkie; inciting rioting; and damaging public property during a protest he staged in November against the referral of civilians to military courts.

    Abdel-Fattah was not present Wednesday at the court. The ruling can be appealed.

    He played a major role in the 2011 uprising that forced longtime president Hosny Mubarak to step down.

    In December, three other leading pro-democracy activists were sentenced to three years in prison each for holding an unauthorized protest.

    In November, the military-backed government adopted a controversial law that required organizers to give three days notice to police before holding demonstrations. It also granted law enforcement agents the power to ban any rally deemed a threat to public safety.

    Critics say the law is aimed at muzzling political dissent.

    The authorities argue it is necessary as a means to curb the violent protests that have hit Egypt since the army deposed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July.

    Ex-army chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi, who was elected president last month, has defended the law in a recent TV interview.

    http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_0...pporters-0360/
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    Egypt Hangs Man for Murder of Moroccan Singer's Daughter

    Cairo: Egypt on Thursday hanged a man convicted of murdering the daughter of a Moroccan singer and her friend six years ago during a bungled burglary, security officials said.

    The November 2008 murder of Heba al-Akkad, the 23-year-old daughter of singer Leila Ghofran, and her friend Nadine Gamal in an affluent Cairo suburb had sparked a massive hunt for the killer.

    A blacksmith was arrested in connection with the murders, with police saying at the time he had entered Akkad's apartment with the intention of stealing money and had killed her and Gamal.

    The man was sentenced to death in 2010 and executed on Thursday at the Wadi al-Natrun prison.

    Egypt applies the death penalty infrequently.

    But since the army ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July, hundreds of his supporters have been sentenced to death in speedy mass trials that have sparked an international outcry.

    http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/eg...aughter-544668

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    Court confirms Egypt Muslim Brotherhood death sentences

    An Egyptian court has confirmed death sentences for 183 Muslim Brotherhood supporters accused of a 2013 attack on a police station, lawyers say.

    A judge had recommended the death penalty for the 683 defendants, in a widely-criticised mass trial in April.

    Mohammed Badie, leader of the banned group, was among those whose sentences were upheld. Appeals are now likely.

    The military-installed government has sentenced hundreds of its opponents since December.

    Authorities have cracked down harshly on Islamists since former President Mohammed Morsi, who belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood, was removed by the military in July 2013 following mass protests.

    Saturday's verdict was delivered by a court in the town of Minya, south of Cairo.

    4 of the defendants were given sentences of 15-25 years in jail and the rest were acquitted.

    The defendants were accused of involvement in the murder and attempted murder of policemen in Minya province on 14 August 2013, the day police killed hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters in clashes in Cairo.

    This is the largest confirmed mass death sentence to be passed in Egypt in recent times. The verdicts and the speed at which the trial was handled have drawn widespread criticism from human rights groups.

    The judge, Sa'ed Yusef Sabri, has a draconian reputation, and is known as al-Jazzar, the Butcher. The activist and former chairman of the Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights, Hesham Qasim, told the BBC it was time for the authorities to take measures against the judge for these unprecedented sentences.

    He said the judge had not observed due process, and that once the verdicts were challenged, all the sentences would be overturned. The death sentences, he said, would have a negative impact on Egypt's image around the world and its economy.

    The prominent human rights activist, Aida Seif al-Dawla, said the verdicts were politically motivated. The government, she said, was settling its political scores with the Brotherhood through executions.

    The charges ranged from sabotage and terrorising civilians to murder. Of the 683, all but 110 were tried in absentia.

    Defence lawyers called the mass trial "farcical" and said many of those accused were not present during the clashes.

    Following April's trial, the recommended death sentences were referred to the Grand Mufti - Egypt's top Islamic authority - for review.

    The court was to consider his opinion before issuing its final decision.

    However correspondents say the case is likely to go to Egypt's appeal courts.

    On Thursday, Mr Badie and 13 others were also given recommended death sentences over a separate case involving deadly clashes last year.

    (Source: BBC News)
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    Egypt: Teenager sentenced to death for murder and rape

    Cairo: A 19-year-old man has been sentenced to death by an Egyptian court on charges of sexual assault and murder of a girl child.

    The Minya Criminal Court yesterday sentenced the teenager for killing the girl after raping her in March this year. The girl's body was found in March in an abandoned house with her scalp wounded and evidences of sexual abuse.

    The incident happened while the victim was going for Quran classes. The man deceived her and took her to an abandoned house, police said.

    The court appointed a lawyer to defend the criminal because all lawyers refused to represent him, Youm7 reported.

    http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/...pe_948104.html

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    Egypt sentences 188 to death

    An Egyptian court on Tuesday condemned 188 people to death for a deadly attack on police after security forces dispersed sit-ins by supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, a judicial source said.

    The accused, of whom 143 are behind bars, were found guilty of taking part in an August 14, 2013 attack on a police station in Kerdassa, a village on the outskirts of Cairo, killing 13 police officers. The attack took place on the same day that security forces violently dismantled two massive pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo in an operation that cost at least 700 lives.

    The death sentences, under Egyptian law, are subject to approval by the mufti, the country's highest Muslim religious authority. The verdict is to be confirmed or commuted on January 24. Since the army deposed Morsi in July 2013, at least 1 400 of his supporters have been killed in a crackdown on pro-Morsi protests and hundreds sentenced to death in swift trials.

    The UN rights office said on Tuesday that Egypt must rein in its security forces and investigate human rights abuses against protesters.The United Nations said it was deeply concerned by "the seriously damaging lack of accountability for human rights violations committed by security forces in the context of demonstrations".

    http://news.iafrica.com/worldnews/973737.html

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    Egypt court confirms death sentence for Sinai militant Habara, six others

    Cairo Criminal Court confirmed Saturday death sentences against Sinai militant Adel Habara and six others for carrying out an execution-style killing of policemen in an ambush in August 2013.

    Some 25 soldiers were killed in the attack.

    The court had referred the seven defendants to the grand mufti last October to review their sentence, a routine procedure in capital punishment cases.

    The grand mufti approved of the sentences and the court issued its final verdict in Saturday's session.

    The verdict can still be appealed.

    Three other defendants in the case were sentenced to life in prison while 22 others were sentenced to 15 years in prison.

    Habara, who hit the headlines over his involvement in the attack, is also accused of involvement in another major militant attack in Rafah against the Egyptian army in August 2012, which left 16 soldiers killed. He is also accused of involvement in other militant operations against security forces.

    A large number Islamists have been sentenced to death in similar cases over the past year.

    Sinai has been beset by militant attacks by Jihadists over the past decade.

    Since the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, attacks by jihadists against security forces intensified.

    Hundreds of militants and security forces have been killed.

    http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsCont...inai-mili.aspx

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    Date set for Morsi trial verdict

    An Egyptian court says it will announce a verdict in one of the trials of ousted President Mohammed Morsi on April 21.

    Thursday's decision concerns charges of inciting the killing of protesters outside the presidential palace in December 2012, when Muslim Brotherhood members attacked a sit-in, sparking clashes that killed 10 people.

    If found guilty, Morsi could face the death penalty.

    The military removed Morsi from office in July 2013 following mass protests demanding his resignation. Since then the government has launched a sweeping crackdown on the Brotherhood and other political opponents.

    Morsi faces two other ongoing cases and a set of charges that have yet to be brought to trial.

    Morsi was Egypt's first democratically elected leader, but his turbulent one-year rule left the country sharply divided.

    http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/date...7#.VK6Z6ckfndo
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    Egypt: An Egyptian court sentenced 183 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death for the killing of 16 police officers in August 2013

    This is the third mass death sentence of 2014, and according to Al Jazeera it was roundly condemned by rights groups. In December the court issued its preliminary verdict. Then Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director for Human Rights Watch. Said that "mass death sentences are fast losing Egypt’s judiciary whatever reputation for independence it once had.”

    Overall, Egypt has mounted one of the biggest crackdowns in its modern history on the Muslim Brotherhood since the fall of the former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi. Thousands of Brotherhood supporters, who supported the former President, have been arrested and put on mass trials. President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who as army chief toppled Mursi, described the Brotherhood as a major security threat.

    Once in power in 2012, Mohamed Mursi together with the Muslim Brotherhood faced significant criticism as they tried to change the Egyptian constitution bringing it more in line with the Islamist values and removing aspects of religious freedoms.

    http://www.neurope.eu/article/egypt-...entenced-death

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    Egypt court sentences 4 Brotherhood members to death

    An Egyptian court has handed down death sentence to four members of the Muslim Brotherhood movement while condemning 14 other to life in prison.

    The men sentenced to death are Mohamed Abdel-Azeem el-Beshlawy, Mostafa Abdel-Azim Fahmy, Atef Abdel-Azim Mohamed and Abdel-Rahim Mohamed Abdel-Rahim.

    Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie and his deputy Khairat al-Shater along with former lawmaker Mohammed el-Beltagy, party head, Saad el-Katatni, and his deputy, Essam el-Erian, were among those who received life in prison.

    The verdicts can still be appealed.

    Among other charges, the convicted are accused of murder and possession of firearms.

    The case derives from clashes near the Muslim Brotherhood’s headquarters on June 30, 2013, days before the ouster of former president, Mohamed Morsi.

    The clashes between supporters and opponents of Morsi, who demanded his ouster, left 11 dead and 91 others wounded.

    Muslim Brotherhood-backed Morsi was elected president in an election after the fall of long-time dictator, Hosni Mubarak, but was later ousted in a coup led by former military chief and current President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in July 2013.

    The Egyptian government has been cracking down on any opposition since Morsi was ousted, arresting thousands of people including Brotherhood leaders and activists.

    The Egyptian government listed the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization in December 2013.

    http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/02...mbers-to-death

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    Egypt carries out first hanging over pro-Morsi violence

    Cairo - Egypt carried out on Saturday the first death sentence handed down over the violence that erupted after the army overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013, the interior ministry said.

    Hundreds of Morsi supporters have been sentenced to death after speedy mass trials, which the United Nations has described as "unprecedented in recent history".

    Mahmoud Ramadan, who was hanged at 07:00 (05:00 GMT), was the "first to be executed of those involved in violent clashes," ministry spokesperson Hani Abdel Latif told AFP.

    A court in Egypt's second city Alexandria sentenced Ramadan to death in 2014 after convicting him of throwing youths off an apartment block, killing one of them.

    He was among dozens of people tried over deadly violence in the city's Sidi Gaber neighbourhood on 5 July 2013, two days after Morsi's ouster by then army chief and now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

    "The prison authority carried out the hanging of Mahmoud Ramadan, accused of throwing children from the roof of a building in Alexandria during violent clashes organised by the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood," the interior ministry said on its Facebook page.

    The unrest on that day came as Morsi supporters and opponents held rival demonstrations across the city.

    Amateur video footage of the protests had gone viral on the internet, with prosecutors using it as evidence in the case involving Ramadan.

    In one scene, a bearded Ramadan in a white vest and black trousers is walking on the roof of a building.

    Four youths are seen cowering on top of a structure there that appears to be a water tank as the man identified as Ramadan and others throw stones at them.

    Minutes later two youngsters fall off the structure onto the roof.

    In separate footage, aired by a private television channel after his alleged confession, Ramadan says: "When I appear before the prosecution, I will demand to be executed."

    A government crackdown on Morsi's supporters killed hundreds, with thousands more arrested and tried.

    The ousted president is himself facing multiple trials on charges that carry the death penalty.

    The leader of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement, Mohamed Badie, has already been tried and handed down four life sentences in separate cases, while one death verdict was overturned on appeal.

    Many of the prosecutions have been in mass trials, which then UN human rights chief Navi Pillay described last June as "obscene and a complete travesty of justice."

    Rights groups and activists too have criticised the authorities, accusing them of using the judiciary as a tool of repression to crack down on Morsi supporters or on any kind of dissent.

    "Mass death sentences are fast losing Egypt's judiciary whatever reputation for independence it once had," Sarah Leah Whitson, Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa director, said in December after a court sentenced 188 Morsi supporters over the killing of 13 policemen.

    The crackdown has triggered retaliatory attacks by Islamists targeting security forces in Cairo and other major cities, but mostly in the Sinai Peninsula, where troops are battling a raging insurgency.

    Scores of policemen and soldiers have been killed in the attacks, most of them claimed by Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the Egyptian affiliate of the Islamic State group.

    Late Friday, a bomb blast in the textile town of Mahallah, north of Cairo, killed one person and wounded 11.

    The interior minister who oversaw the crackdown on Morsi's supporters, Mohamed Ibrahim, was replaced Thursday amid mounting criticism of the failure by police to halt the attacks.

    His successor, Magdy Abdel Ghaffar, appointed 25 new police commanders Friday in a major shake-up.

    http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Eg...nce-20150307-4
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