Criminal Justice
10 October 2016
On the World Day Against the Death Penalty ,11 Rights groups call for a Moratorium on the Death Penalty in Egypt.
The government of Egypt needs to temporarily suspend the use of the death penalty, given the recent record of human rights abuses, politicized trials and the ease with which Egyptian courts have been issuing lengthy prison terms and death sentences in recent times, said 10 Egyptian rights groups on the 14th World Day Against the Death Penalty .