04 March 2024 :

An Egyptian doctor has been sentenced to death by hanging after being convicted of raping 93 patients, Gulf News reported on March 2, 2024.
The verdict was delivered by a Criminal Court in Egypt, following a case that shocked the nation and was extensively covered in the media.
The court's decision came after consulting with Egypt's Grand Mufti, a procedure required for death sentences in the country.
The chilling story began when a woman filed a report against a doctor operating a clinic in Cairo's Shubra neighborhood. She accused him of coercing her into sexual relations in exchange for performing an abortion. Prompt action led to the doctor's arrest.
Subsequent investigations revealed a disturbing pattern of abuse within the clinic's walls. It was revealed that the doctor exploited his position to perform abortions for financial gain, often resorting to sexual coercion and subsequent blackmail of his patients.
Surveillance footage from the clinic revealed the extent of the doctor's depravity, implicating him in the assault of 93 patients. Shockingly, some victims were assaulted with their apparent consent, while others fell prey after the doctor drugged them.
The case sparked outrage across Egypt, dominating social media discussions following the doctor's arrest and trial. The severity of the crimes prompted the court to seek the Grand Mufti's opinion on the death penalty, resulting in the death verdict.

09 July 2024 :

A court sentenced nine people to death by hanging on July 6, 2024 as part of its verdict on 43 defendants in total accused of affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood, which is classified as a terrorist organization in Egypt, and of conducting operations targeting the state, its facilities and personnel. 
The group on trial, referred to as the “revolutionary guards,” were just one of many convicted over recent years in relation to the period of contestation between state security forces and other groups in the wake of the military ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi in 2013. 
According to news reports, a terrorism circuit of the State Security Criminal Prosecution also sentenced three other defendants to life imprisonment, 28 more to 15 years imprisonment with hard labor and three to 10 years imprisonment with hard labor. 
The ruling also stated that all of those convicted should remain under police surveillance following the completion of their sentences and that they be prohibited from residing in any of Egypt’s border governorates for five years. 
The defendants were investigated and tried for establishing a group in Agouza, Giza. Case documentation cited by US-owned outlet Al-Hurra said that the group funded the purchase of firearms and explosives, the rental of a residential unit used as organizational headquarters, used encrypted communication programs to avoid security surveillance, infiltrated a neighboring country, trained groups affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood to manufacture explosives and use firearms and forged government documents. 
They were also reported to have conducted these operations with the aim of “harming the political and economic situation in the country with the intent to disturb the public peace, within the framework of the goals of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group.”

01 July 2024 :

The Egyptian Terrorism Criminal Court has sentenced to death a man for murdering a police officer in Shibin Al-Qanater and attempting to kill others, the Committee for Justice (CFJ) reported on June 27, 2024.
CFJ has rejected the death sentence, calling for Abdullah El-Zareidi El-Zareidi to be retried before a regular judge.
The court, presided over by Judge Sameh Abdel Hakam, alongside Judges Abdel Rahman Safwat Al-Husseini, Yasser Akasha Al-Mutannawi, and Mohamed Marai, with the presence of Zeid Nafeh, head of the Supreme State Security Prosecution, sentenced Abdullah El-Zareidi to death by hanging.
El-Zareidi was convicted of murdering a police officer in Shibin Al-Qanater and attempting to kill others.
The court’s decision was supported by a report from the Grand Mufti, endorsing the application of retribution due to the severity of the crime.
A forensic psychiatric report presented in a previous session concluded that El-Zareidi had been examined by a tripartite committee at Abbasiya Psychiatric Hospital, which found no evidence of mental or psychological disorders at the time of the crime or during the examination.
The report confirmed that El-Zareidi was fully aware and capable of making decisions, thereby holding him accountable for the charges against him.
CFJ has rejected the death sentence, criticizing it as a product of an exceptional court operating under the extraordinary “Anti-Terrorism Law,” which lacks the fundamental standards of a fair trial recognized internationally.
CFJ has urged the suspension of the sentence and called for El-Zareidi to be retried before a regular judge.
Additionally, CFJ has appealed to Egypt to heed international calls to abolish the death penalty and replace it with lesser penalties. CFJ has also called on the international community and UN mechanisms to monitor the situation in Egypt, pressuring the authorities to halt political executions and the ongoing loss of life, and to provide remedies for the families of those executed following such trials.

09 April 2024 :

Egypt’s highest court on January 24, 2024 confirmed the death sentences against seven individuals, in the so-called “Helwan Brigade” counter-terrorism case. 
The seven individuals are Magdy Muhammed Ibrahim Ibrahim, Mahmoud Attia Ahmed Abdulghany, Abdulwahab Mostafa Muhammed Mostafa, Musab Abdulhamid Khalifa, Abdullah Nader Al-Sharqawy, Abdulrahman Issa Abdulkhaliq, and Mahmoud Al-Sayed Amin. 
In the summer of 2014, a group known as the Helwan Brigades issued a video manifesto on social media expressing their dismay at the "peacefulness of the Muslim Brotherhood" in dealing with Egypt's Ministry of Interior, just as the military had ousted democratically-elected president Mohamed Morsi.
The group warned authorities that they "did not want to carry arms, but you are the ones who forced us to resort to it to defend ourselves, to defend our women, to defend this land".
The charges against them included participation in terrorist acts, vandalising a vehicle for the Helwan Police Station, sabotaging the Helwan Traffic Unit building, the killing of several police officers, the possession of explosives, and detonation of an explosive device in al-Basha Cafe in Helwan.

05 March 2024 :

An Egyptian court sentenced on March 4, 2024, Muslim Brotherhood leaders Mohamed Badie, Mohamed El-Beltagy, and 6 others to death in Case No. 72 of 2021, also known as the “Platform Incidents” case.
The court also ruled life imprisonment for 37 defendants, imprisonment of 15 years for 6 defendants, and imprisonment of 10 years for 7 defendants. Other 21 defendants were acquitted.
Those sentenced to death are: ‘Muhamad Badie, Mahmoud Ezzat, Muhamad al-Beltagy, Amr Zaki, Osama Yassin, Safwat Hegazy, Essam Abdel Majed, and Muhamad Abdel Maqsoud.’
The Public Prosecution’s decision to refer the defendants to court came after accusing them for committing several crimes, namely joining a group established in violation of the provisions of the law, participated in the crimes of crowding, violence, and murder, along with attempts to kill policemen on al Nasr Road, and preparing firearms for this purpose.
During previous sessions, Egypt’s Public Prosecution Office presented an official report from the Public Transport Authority regarding the damages reported at the locations where violence acts took place including, stations on Al-Nasr Street.
Article 12 of the Anti-Terrorism Law defines the penalty for establishing or managing a terrorist group, and when does this crime reach the death penalty, and stipulates that “Whoever establishes, organizes, or manages a terrorist group, or assumes leadership in it, shall be punished with death or life imprisonment.”

24 September 2024 :

The South Cairo Criminal Court on September 12, 2024 sentenced an English teacher to death by hanging for torturing and killing three women earlier this year.
The court’s decision came after the Grand Mufti upheld the death sentence against 37-year-old Karim Salim, an English teacher with over 629,000 followers on TikTok.
The public prosecution charged Salim with killing three women after drugging and sexually abusing them before and after their deaths, recording videos of these acts.
The defendant is a graduate of the United States and holds American citizenship. During investigations he confessed to all charges and identified the location where he kept the tools used to drug his victims and the quantities he administered.
The Public Prosecution had referred Salim to the criminal court on charges of murder, drug possession, drug trafficking and human trafficking.
He committed his crimes on 15 November 2023, 8 April 2024, and 15 May 2024 in the Cairo Governorate.
The sentence can be appealed.

09 September 2024 :

The Egyptian Criminal Court upheld the death sentence on September 3, 2024 against Essam Abdel Majeed, who was convicted of killing Major General Nabil Farag. The sentence was confirmed after being approved by the country’s highest Sunni Muslim authority, a requirement for any execution to be carried out.
Abdel Majeed, known as Abu Hamza, was sentenced in absentia along with others for the murder of Farag, who was the Assistant Director of Giza Security. He was killed on 19 September 2013 during violence that erupted when police stormed the town of Kerdasa near Cairo and arrested dozens of supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi. The general was shot dead when security forces exchanged fire with Muslim Brotherhood supporters in the area.
The Egyptian Court of Cassation had previously rejected the appeals filed by twelve detainees against the death and hard labour sentences handed down to them. The authorities executed three of the detainees after a final ruling from the Court of Cassation.
The court has also commuted the death sentences for four detainees to life in prison or 25 years, and upheld the 10-year hard labour sentence against five others, making all sentences final and binding.
Local and international legal and human rights organisations and institutions condemned the death sentences being imposed in Egypt against opponents of the Sisi regime, saying that they are politically motivated.

23 May 2024 :

The Mansoura Criminal Court sentenced on May 21, 2024 a physics teacher to death for the premeditated murder of a high school student in Daqahliya governorate last February.
The prosecution's investigations established that the teacher, Ahmed Said, lured the victim, Ehab Ashraf, and killed him before dismembering his body and disposing of it in farmland.
Said had been tutoring the victim.
The investigation also established that the teacher contacted the student's wealthy family demanding a ransom.
The sentence can be appealed.