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EGYPT: 14 SENTENCED TO HANG OVER REVENGE KILLING

11 March 2014 :

a court in Cairo sentenced 14 men to be hanged for the revenge killing of a merchant and his daughter in a village north of Cairo.
The court found the 14, from two families in the village of Miet Hashim, guilty of breaking into the man's home in 2010 and slaying him and his daughter.
The attack was in revenge for the killing of a relative of the offenders days earlier.
 
(Sources: dailytimes.com.ng, 10/03/2014)

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.