Egypt carried out ‘execution spree’ in past two months, Amnesty International says
The rights group confirmed 57 executions in October and November alone, nearly double the number of prisoners killed in all of 2019.
Egypt has executed dozens of prisoners in the past two months, nearly double the number of recorded executions in all of 2019, Amnesty International said Wednesday.
In what it called a “horrifying execution spree,” the London-based rights group said in a report Wednesday that Egyptian security forces executed at least 57 men and women between October and November. For comparison, the country executed a total of 32 people in 2019.
The figures are likely underestimates since Egypt doesn’t publish statistics on executions or inform the families and their lawyers, the report said. Pro-government media put the number of executions during the same period this year at 91.
In addition, Amnesty International said at least 15 political prisoners were sentenced to death in October and November following “grossly unfair trials marred by forced ‘confessions’ and other serious human rights violations.”
