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18 June 2015

Egypt: Cairo Criminal Court Confirms Death Sentence Against Morsi

Mohamed Morsi Mohamed Morsi KHALED DESOUKI / AFP/GETTY IMAGES

On 16 June 2015, the Cairo Criminal Court confirmed the death sentences of Mohamed Morsi and several other Muslim Brotherhood leaders that had been handed in May 2015 and subsequently reviewed by the Grand Mufti of Egypt. On the same day, Morsi and 35 other defendants were also sentenced to life in prison under charges of espionage. These decisions were issued regardless of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) Opinion of December 2013 asking for Morsi's release, by demonstrating the total disregard of the Egyptian authorities for their international obligations.

Alkarama had already issued a statement regarding this death sentence and reiterates its call to the Egyptian authorities not to implement the deaths sentences arbitrarily given against political opponents and to put an end to their arbitrary detention, including to that of former president Morsi. In this sense Alkarama hopes that the death sentences confirmed on 16 June will be repealed.

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