EGYPT MUST HALT EXECUTIONS OF SIX MEN SENTENCED AFTER UNFAIR TRIALS - UN EXPERTS
(WorldNews Switzerland)

22 June 2017 (Issued as received) - GENEVA (22 June 2017) - The Government of Egypt must halt the executions of six men sentenced to death after trials that did not meet international standards of fairness, a group of UN human rights experts* have said. The experts expressed deep concern that the men had been convicted on the basis of forced confessions that were later retracted. `To proceed with the executions of the six men on the basis of these flawed trials would violate international human rights law and constitute arbitrary executions,` noted the experts on description executions, torture, arbitrary detention and countering-terrorism. The death sentences were upheld on 7 June by Egypt`s...