Execution of 15 rekindles human rights debate in Egypt
Cairo has executed another 15 political detainees whose families are accusing the state of torture and refusing to hand over the bodies.
CAIRO — Rights groups are alarmed about the execution of political detainees in Egypt.
On Oct. 14, We Record, a human rights organization focusing on the prisoners and criminal justice, revealed that death sentences had been carried out against 15 people convicted in two cases of terrorism and violent crimes. Egyptian and international human rights organizations have lately criticized the human rights situation in Egypt and demanded an end to the death penalty.
According to We Record, 13 of the 15 detainees who were executed were involved in a case known in the media as “Ajnad Misr” ("Soldiers of Egypt") and the other two are involved in and attempt to storm the Library of Alexandria.
On May 7, 2019, the Court of Cassation, Egypt’s top judicial authority, issued death sentences for 13 people convicted in the Ajnad Misr case of targeting and killing police officers and threatening public peace and security.
