The Egyptian Court of Cassation issued a final death sentence against 12 prominent opposition leaders in the Rabaa Dispersal case, two months before the eighth anniversary of the August 14, 2013 massacre.
The sentences were issued after a politicized trial that lacked minimum standards of justice, during which the defendants were subjected to various types of human rights and legal violations, like the unfair trials of the Egyptian judiciary under the current regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
The death sentence for those detainees who survived the massacre is a new crime added to the mass killing perpetrated by the Egyptian army and police against more than a thousand Egyptian citizens on that day.
In this regard, Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK invites you to attend a virtual seminar entitled “Stop Executions in Egypt”, with the participation of a number of human rights defenders, journalists, international lawyers, and parliamentarians to discuss the unjust decision issued by the Egyptian Court of Cassation and to discuss possible solutions to stop the implementation of death sentences in Egypt.
Speakers:
Ahmed Osama Yassin
Son one of the detainees who have been sentenced to death.
Massimo Ungaro
Italian MP
Dr. Maha Azzam
Head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council.
Missy Crutchfield
Co-Founder of Gandhi Global Centre For Peace, USA.
Medea Benjamin
Co-founder of CodePink, USA.
Mohamed Ismail
Co-Founder of Egypt’s hope Party
Date and time:
Thursday, June 24, 2021
18:00 – 20:00 London GMT
13:00 – 15:00 New York, NY, USA (GMT-4)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84551413108?pwd=TkZqMmFvc2hUU3gxNmlwb0RjQnVYUT09
Meeting ID: 845 5141 3108
Passcode: 358143
