executions

In President Abdelfattah el-Sisi’s first five years in power, his regime handed preliminary death sentences to more than 2,400 people, a Reprieve report reveals.

Pressure is growing on the Prime Minister to condemn the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s flagrant disregard for international law and call for a halt to executions in the country, following the mass execution of 37 people on 23 April.

Studies have found persistent patterns of racial disparities in courts imposing the death penalty, with black people much more likely to receive such verdicts than white people. 

The Egyptian authorities have executed nine men who had been convicted after an unfair trial for the killing of the former public prosecutor in an attack in Cairo in June 2015.