The Egyptian regime is known for fabricating charges against its opponents in trials full of legal violations, resulting in harsh sentences amounting to death penalty.
The Egyptian Court of Cassation, the highest degree of litigation in Egypt, has issued its final ruling in the “Menoufia functional committees” case, by rejecting appeals against the death sentences of 2 defendants, while accepting the appeal of 4 others, and changing their sentence to a life sentence (25 years).
The court upheld the death sentence against Anas Ahmed Hamdi, a graduate of the Faculty of Education of Menoufia University, and Salah Mohammed Beheiry, an agricultural engineer. It also commuted the sentence of 4 others from execution to life sentence against Mustafa Saad Al-Qassas, a student at the Institute of Computers and Information at the University of Tanta, Suhaib Al-Sayed Younis, a graduate with Arabic language education, Mohamed Sami, an agricultural engineer, and Ahmed Nasser, Engineering student.
On September 4, 2022, the Criminal Court of Shebin El-Koum in Menoufia issued a death sentence against 6 Egyptians in the case No. 85 of 2017, and the Court of Cassation accepted the appeals and issued the final verdicts.
The charges included “joining a banned group, forming a committee to overthrow the ruling system, and target the army, police, and state institutions”.
Since July 2013, Egyptian judges have widely used the death penalty against opponents of Sisi’s regime, which has been controlling the judiciary, following the constitutional amendments of 2019.
The Egyptian authorities have issued horrific numbers of executions in recent years, with hundreds sentenced to death in unfair mass trials, including dozens that have been tried in military courts.
