On this World Day Against the Death Penalty, we, the undersigned organisations, express our horror at the alarming surge in executions in Saudi Arabia.
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We the undersigned Egyptian and international civil society organizations welcome the decision of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to not sign the draft Criminal Procedure Code into law and instead to send it back to parliament for revision.
The undersigned human rights organizations are deeply concerned over the severe deterioration in the health of lawyer and human rights defender Hoda Abdel-Moneim, 66 years old, who has been in pretrial detention since 1st of November 2018. Abd
The Second Circuit of the Criminal Court (Terrorism) at Badr Court Complex resumed on August 8th the trial of Samer Ahmed El-Dessouky (35 years old, Financial Manager), who is being prosecuted in connection with Case No.
We, the undersigned organisations, are gravely fearful for the lives of hundreds of prisoners threatened with imminent execution in Saudi Arabia for non-lethal drug-related offences, including scores of Egyptian, Ethiopian and Somali nationals.
Position paper
During the month of January, Egyptian courts issued death sentences to 69 defendants in 48 cases. Among them, 6 were issued final verdicts that could not be appealed.
The undersigned organizations express deep concern over the systematic and widespread use of torture, other ill-treatment, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention, unfair trials, and appalling detention conditions in Egypt.
On 23 November, the Second Terrorism Circuit of the Cairo Criminal Court issued a decision in Case No. 620 of 2018, removing 716 names from the terror list, out of 1,524 people involved in the same case.
