22/10/2020
Human Rights Watch denounces Egypt?s mass executions
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has strongly denounced Egyptian authorities for executing at least 49 prisoners, including two women, in just 10 days. The New York-based rights group said in a statement on Thursday that it compiled the executions between October 3 and 13 from reports in pro-government newspapers. According to the HRW, of the 49 killed, 15 were convicted of alleged involvement in political violence following the military overthrow in July 2013 of Egypt?s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi. Some of the executed were found guilty in...
