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Nine executed in Egypt over Hisham Barakat assassination
Source: The Guardian
Nine executed in Egypt over Hisham Barakat assassination
Human rights campaigners say 15 people executed recently were subjected to torture and unjust trials
Ruth Michaelson in Cairo
Wed 20 Feb 2019 11.27 GMT
Egypt executed nine men accused of killing the country’s former top prosecutor on Wednesday, bringing the total of those executed in the country to 15 in less than three weeks.
The men were among 28 sentenced to death for the murder of Hisham Barakat, Egypt’s former public prosecutor, who was assassinated when a car bomb struck his vehicle in 2015.
Human rights campaigners said that the 15 people executed in recent weeks were convicted following confessions extracted under torture and unjust trials.
“This trial was a monument to unfair trials in Egypt,” said Hussein Baoumi of Amnesty International. “You can see from the start that many of those convicted were forcibly disappeared at the beginning, then tortured into giving confessions.”
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Human rights campaigners say 15 people executed recently were subjected to torture and unjust trials
Ruth Michaelson in Cairo
Wed 20 Feb 2019 11.27 GMT
Egypt executed nine men accused of killing the country’s former top prosecutor on Wednesday, bringing the total of those executed in the country to 15 in less than three weeks.
The men were among 28 sentenced to death for the murder of Hisham Barakat, Egypt’s former public prosecutor, who was assassinated when a car bomb struck his vehicle in 2015.
Human rights campaigners said that the 15 people executed in recent weeks were convicted following confessions extracted under torture and unjust trials.
“This trial was a monument to unfair trials in Egypt,” said Hussein Baoumi of Amnesty International. “You can see from the start that many of those convicted were forcibly disappeared at the beginning, then tortured into giving confessions.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/20/egypt-executes-nine-men-convicted-hisham-barakat-assassination