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EGYPT: FIVE HANGED FOR MURDER AND THEFT

27 April 2015 :

Authorities in Egypt have hanged five people convicted of murder and theft, the interior ministry said.
They were executed in a prison in the southern province of Assyut after the appeals process had been exhausted, a ministry statement said.
No more details were supplied about the individual cases.
 
(Sources: AFP, 27/04/2015)

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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.