Egypt: Cancel Alexandria Death Penalty
(World News Egypt)

Expand Fadl al-Mawala, an employee of the Engineers´ Club in Alexandria and a preacher affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, was sentenced to death in 2016 in connection with the killing of a taxi driver during a protest three years earlier. © Private (Beirut) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi should cancel a death sentence confirmed by the country´s highest appeals court on April 25, 2017, Human Rights Watch said today. The sentence followed a trial that violated the defendant´s due process rights. If carried out, it would be the ninth execution related to an incident of political violence since the military removed the former president in 2013. An Alexandria criminal court...