Hundreds of prisoners are languishing on death row, waiting for their sentences to be carried out.
Mada unpacks the strategy and its delayed rollout and looks to what it means moving forward.
Tawadros' trial has been characterized by rights groups as “grossly unfair"
Karim corrected them: “We are going to state security premises.”
Courts sentenced nine people to death on Saturday for affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Ten defendants convicted in the same case were executed in October 2020
16 people on death row have been executed over the past week in Egypt
The ruling from Egypt’s highest court is final—only a presidential pardon could suspend the sentence
The defendants were among an original list of 188 accused in the case
Eleven prisoners, all convicted of murder by criminal courts, were executed at Borg al-Arab Prison.
«Can we debate capital punishment morally and politically?»
«Former prisoner Yara Sallam writes on the right to life on World Day against the Death Penalty»
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