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On 20 May 2015, Mohamed Al Fallahgi, a 58-year-old former Member of Parliament elected in 2012 died in detention, despite Alkarama's urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (SRH) and the Special Rapporteur against Torture (SRT) on 1 May 2015 urging the Egyptian authorities to hospitalise him immediately.

On 19 May 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) regarding the detentions and sentences pronounced against nine journalists on 11 April 2015 by the Cairo Criminal Court in the "Rabaa Operations Room" case. Unlawfully detained for nearly two years in Egyptian prisons, Abdullah Ahmed Mohammed Ismail Alfakharany, aged 24; Samhy Mostafa Ahmed Abdulalim, aged 27; Mohamed Mohamed Aladili, aged 30; Ahmed Sabii, aged 40; Youssouf Talat Mahmoud Mahmoud Abdulkarim, aged 31; Hani Salheddin, aged 47; Mosaad Albarbary, aged 41; and Abdo Dasouki, aged 38 were given life in prison while Waleed Abdulraoof Shalaby, aged 51, was sentenced to death. Alkarama called upon the WGAD to recognise the arbitrary character of their detentions and to subsequently ask the Egyptian authorities to release them immediately.

On 17 May 2015, the Egyptian authorities announced having carried out the death penalty against Mohamed Ali Afifi Badawi, Mohammad Bakri Mohammad Harun, Hani Mustafa Amine Amer, Abdul-Rahman Sayed Rizq, Khaled Farag Mohammed Mohammed Ali and Islam Sayed Ahmed Ibrahim aged between 19 and 33 years of age. These six men had been unlawfully sentenced to death by a military court on 21 October 2014 for crimes they could not have committed, since they were secretly detained at the time when these acts occurred. In order to remedy to their situation, Alkarama had sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, arbitrary and summary executions (SR SUMX) on 8 April 2015 calling upon him to ask the Egyptian authorities to halt the six executions and to grant the victims a new, fair, impartial and civilian trial.

On 18 May 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (SUMX) regarding the sentencing to death of Mohamed Morsi, first democratically elected president of Egypt, together with 105 co-defendants for having escaped the Al Wadi Natrun prison during the 2011 revolution. Dr Morsi was sentenced to death despite a December 2013 Opinion by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) finding "the deprivation of liberty of Dr. Morsi and his advisors (...) arbitrary." The Opinion followed an urgent appeal sent by Alkarama on 10 July 2013 in which Alkarama considered the arrest of Morsi and his co-defendants as a violation, not only of their rights to liberty and to security, but also of their right to fair trial procedures, and called upon the WGAD to intervene to protect them from torture and secure their release.