30 June 2022 :

A court in Cairo on 28 June 2022 sentenced 10 people to death and 56 others to life imprisonment in a mass trial of the case against the Helwan Brigades, whose members have been accused of committing violent acts in Egypt.The First Terrorism Circuit of the Cairo Criminal Court held a hearing at the Tora Police Institute, where it rulings to a total of 215 defendants in the same case.
The mass trial is connected to events that took place between August 2013 and February 2015 - a period that saw a rise in attacks, particularly targeting security forces, following the military coup against Egypt's democratically-elected president Mohamed Morsi.
The court sentenced seven defendants in attendance to death. However, these case files have to be approved by the grand mufti before the executions are carried out.
Those defendants present were Magdy Mohamed Ibrahim, Mahmoud Attia Ahmed Abdel Ghani, Abdel Wahab Mustafa, Musab Abdel Hamid Khalifa, Abdullah Nader, Abdel Rahman Issa, and Mahmoud Al Sayed Amin.
The other three defendants, Yahya al-Sayyid Ibrahim Musa, Mahmoud Abu Hasiba, and Muhammad Ibrahim Hamid, were sentenced in absentia.
In the summer of 2014, a group known as the Helwan Brigades issued a video manifesto on social media expressing their dismay at the "peacefulness of the Muslim Brotherhood" in dealing with Egypt's Ministry of Interior, just as the military had ousted Morsi.
The group warned authorities that they "did not want to carry arms, but you are the ones who forced us to resort to it to defend ourselves, to defend our women, to defend this land".
The charges against them included participation in terrorist acts, vandalising a vehicle for the Helwan Police Station, sabotaging the Helwan Traffic Unit building, the killing of several police officers, the possession of explosives, and detonation of an explosive device in al-Basha Cafe in Helwan.
In a statement, the Committee for Justice (CFJ) human rights group said that some of the defendants in the Helwan Brigades case have been "subjected to psychological and physical torture".
It added that "66 defendants had proven that they had been subjected to enforced disappearance and incommunicado detention from the moment of their arrest until the date of their presentation to the Public Prosecution."
On 28 June, judges also ordered five defendants to pay $1.76m in fines as compensation for "sabotaging public properties and facilities, especially towers and power transformers".
Another 63 people were sentenced to 15 years in prison each, including the photojournalists Khaled Mohamed Sahloub and Alia Nasreddin Awad.
The court also sentenced 35 other defendants to 10 years in jail and acquitted 43. Eight cases were terminated due to the death of the defendants. CFJ said that 35 defendants were prosecuted without a lawyer.
According to CFJ, the court indicted the defendants over founding and leading an illegal group between 14 August 2013 and 2 February 2015 in the Cairo and Giza governorates.
The court said on 28 June that the goal of the Helwan Brigades was "the suspension of the constitution and laws, to prevent state institutions and public authorities from exercising their functions, to attack the personal freedom of citizens, and the public liberties and rights guaranteed by the constitution and the law, and to harm national unity and social peace."Following the release of the group's video in 2014, security forces launched a mass arrest campaign, detaining almost 150 people.

13 March 2022 :

Egyptian authorities executed seven men on 9 and 10 March 2022 in connection with “politically motivated” cases, and after a legal process marred by torture and lack of evidence, a rights group has told Middle East Eye.
The executions raise the number of political death penalty verdicts implemented since President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi came to power in 2014 to 105 people. 
According to the Geneva-based Committee for Justice (CFJ), Egyptian prison authorities executed four men on 10 March, roughly a year after the country’s top appeals court upheld their sentences.
The four men, along with 32 other defendants, had been charged with joining a banned group and with the killing of eight police officers in Helwan on 9 January 2016. 
The CFJ said that four of the accused were subjected to extrajudicial killings during their arrest. 
"The silence of the international community on human rights violations in Egypt, especially the right to life, emboldened the authorities to continue to carry out mass death sentences issued by exceptional trials that lacked the minimum elements of a fair trial," the CFJ said in a statement on 11 March.
It also said that the executed defendants had been subjected to torture and enforced disappearance from the date of their arrest until they were officially brought before the public prosecution.
All the defendants said they were subjected to severe torture inside the headquarters of the National Security Agency, which was used to extract confessions that formed the basis for their referral to trial.
But neither the prosecution nor the court paid any attention to the violations, and the torture allegations have not been investigated, CFJ executive director Ahmed Mefreh told MEE.
Mefreh added that the defendants had no lawyers representing them in the first investigation session, in violation of the Egyptian constitution.
In June 2017, the criminal court added the defendants to “terrorism lists” without a trial or conviction.
The designation had legal implications for the defendants, preventing them from travel, withdrawing their passports, freezing their financial assets and laying off those who work as civil servants, while prohibiting them from working in any government jobs or running for public office.  
“It is a politically motivated case, as the suspects were opponents of the Sisi regime and have not been given a fair trial,” Mefreh told MEE.
The case is known in the media as the “Helwan Microbus Cell” case. The four defendants executed on 10 March were Abdullah Mohamed Shoukry, Mahmoud Abdel Tawab Morsi, Mahmoud Abdel Hamid al-Geneidy, and Ahmed Salama Ashmawy.
On 9 March, three other men were executed in connection with the “Soldiers of Egypt” case, more than two years after their sentences were upheld by the court of cassation, on charges of alleged attacks against security forces in 2014 and 2015. 
In 2020, 10 defendants in the same case were executed. The three were Belal Ibrahim Sobhy Farahat, Mohamed Hassan Ezzeddin Mohamed Hassan, and Tageddin Monis Mohamed Hemeidah.
The CFJ said the defendants in the "Soldiers of Egypt" case were subjected to enforced disappearance after their arrest and were coerced to make confessions under torture. Lawyers were not permitted to attend their investigation sessions.

08 March 2022 :

A Sharqiya criminal court handed on 3 March 2022 death sentences against four men and handed 7-15 jail terms to 26 others for murdering two policemen and attempting to murder other security personnel in 2014.
The court convicted the defendants of joining a terrorist group, possessing explosive charges, and sabotaging state properties.
The verdict was issued after the mufti, the authority which issues religious edicts, approved the court's death penalties in a non-binding but legally required opinion as per the country's penal code.
The ruling can be appealed within 60 days before the Court of Cassation.
The defendants, who were arrested in 2014 in the Nile Delta governorate of Sharqiya, were charged with forming a terrorist cell of 30 members with the aim of disrupting order, carrying out terrorist operations, vandalising police vehicles, murdering two policemen, and attempting to kill others.
The defendants were found in possession of ammunitions, explosives, and publications calling for the suspension of the country's constitution and preventing state institutions from doing their duties.

31 January 2022 :

An Egyptian court on 30 January 2022 sentenced to death 10 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group for coordinating and planning attacks on the police, the state-news agency MENA has reported.
The identities of the defendants were not revealed and it was not possible to determine how they had pleaded to the charges.
Nine were in custody while one was sentenced in absentia, a judicial source was cited as saying on Sunday by the AFP news agency.
The verdict will now be referred to the Grand Mufti, Egypt’s top theological authority – a formality in death penalty cases – before the court meets on June 19 to confirm the sentences.
The 10 who were sentenced to death had formed a group called “Helwan Brigades”, MENA said, in reference to a city south of Cairo. They were part of a broader plot to attack police targets in the Cairo area with the aim to topple the government, it added.

14 June 2022 :

The death sentence of seven Pakistanis imprisoned in Egypt has been commuted to life imprisonment, Pipa news reported on 9 June 2022.
An Egyptian court has sentenced seven people to death during a trial in a drug trafficking case: Sadat, Zahoor of Swat and Iqbal, Raheel, Pervez, Atif of Karachi and another person.
“We assisted in the case and on the appeal of the arrested persons, the Egyptian court commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment,” said Nisar A. Mujahid, a Supreme Court lawyer.

10 January 2022 :

Egypt’s Court of Cassation on 2 January 2022 commuted the death penalty against six defendants charged with being involved in a terrorist attack on the Three Pyramids Hotel in Giza in 2016.
According to the court's new ruling, the capital punishment was commuted to a harsh ten-year prison sentence while the life sentence given to eight others was commuted to a five-year prison term.
It also acquitted 12 other defendants after overturning their sentence in the same case. 
The verdict comes nearly two years after a Giza Criminal Court sentenced the six defendants in 2019 to death.
The attack in question was orchestrated on a tourist bus outside the hotel that did not result in any casualties. The attempt, however, was claimed by Islamic State affiliate Ansar Beit Al-Maqdes nonetheless.
The Ministry of Interior said the attack, which involved a group of people hurling fireworks, was aimed at security forces guarding the hotel.

08 November 2022 :

An Egyptian court on 7 November 2022 upheld the death sentence for a man who murdered a university student in the agricultural province of Sharqia.
Islam Mohamed was found guilty of stabbing his classmate Salma Bahgat in the city of Zagazig in August after she repeatedly rejected his romantic advances. The incident shook the nation.
Though the court had already issued the death penalty, the ruling had been under review by the country’s Grand Mufti since October, a routine step in Egypt.
A court official said in October that Mohamed was given a psychiatric evaluation by medical professionals who determined he was sane when committing his crime, making him fully responsible for the premeditated murder. He also announced his intent to carry out the murder on social media hours before committing the crime.
A forensics report at the time of the murder showed that Bahgat, who was killed at the entrance of a building in Zagazig, was stabbed 31 times.
Security camera footage showed the killer pacing in the lobby, holding the knife he used to kill Bahgat while her body could be seen on the floor behind him. There were more than 15 eyewitnesses.

24 October 2022 :

An Egyptian court has sentenced nine members of one family to death after convicting them of murdering a man and mutilating his body, Gulf News reported on 22 October 2022 citing local media report.
The convicts are a man, his wife, their three sons, his brother, the latter’s wife and their two sons.
The preliminary death verdict was delivered by a criminal court in Minya city in south Egypt.
The ruling will be referred to the nation’s highest Islamic authority, the Republic’s Mufti, for approval, a legal procedure in the country in cases involving death sentences.
The case is related to a fight between two families over a marriage dispute.
During the violence, one family, wielding long knives and sticks, ambushed the other, killed one of them and injured his son.
After the murder, they mutilated the dead body and moved a car over it, according to Al Shorouk newspaper.
The nine accused were arrested and put on trial.

04 October 2022 :

The killer of a 22-year-old university student has been sentenced to death, a court in the Egyptian province of Shariqa said on 3 October 2022.
The Zagazig Criminal Court said that the death sentence for Islam Mohamed, who stabbed Salma Bahgat in August, has been referred to the grand mufti, a ceremonial step when an execution is ordered.
The mufti’s opinion is non-binding, although he has the right to review death sentences. A court session on 3 November is to announce a final verdict, including the grand mufti's deliberations.
Court officials said the killer was given a psychiatric evaluation by medical professionals who determined he was sane when committing his crimes, meaning he is fully responsible for the premeditated murder, which the killer announced on social media hours before he committed it.
A forensics report showed that Bahgat, who was killed in the entrance to a building in Zagazig, was stabbed 31 times.
Security camera footage showed the killer pacing the lobby, holding the knife he used to kill Bahgat while her body could be seen on the floor behind him.
The court heard that Mohamed had been in a romantic relationship with Bahgat that ended months before the murder. When she broke up with Mohamed, he began harassing her, her friends and her family in an attempt to rekindle their relationship.
After evading Mohamed for months, Baghat was tracked down through a friend.
The friend, who became one of the main witnesses in the case, told prosecutors that Mohamed contacted her the day before the murder and she told him that Bahgat would be visiting her at her workplace the following day.
Mohamed arrived at the office building after buying a knife from a nearby shop.
He then waited for Bahgat, followed her into the building and stabbed her.

19 September 2022 :

A 26-year-old woman and her lover on 17 September 2022 were both sentenced to death by hanging in Egypt after being found guilty of killing her three children and attempting the murder of her husband, local media reported.
The Nagaa Hammadi Criminal Court, Upper Egypt, issued the final verdict after receiving the permission of the Grand Mufti.
The crime dates back to July 2021, when the Qena Security Directorate received a report that Raafat Galal, 35, had been poisoned, and his children, Amira, eight, Amir, seven, and Adam, nine, had died of food poisoning.
Investigations revealed that there was a suspected criminal act behind the death of the three children and the poisoning of their father after they drank canned juice.
Police investigation found that the mother of the children was behind the incident in collaboration with her lover, a driver, 28.
Investigations also found that there had been a 3-year-long relationship between the mother and the driver and they decided to get rid of the husband and the children so that they would be free.
On the day of the incident, the lover took advantage of her parents’ visit to a pediatric clinic to have a medical checkup for one of the kids.
The mother told her lover about the date, so he bought four cans of juice, mixed them with a toxic substance and gave to his lover, who in turn, gave it to her children and her husband after they came back.
The children and the husband suffered from food poisoning. The three children died, while the husband lost consciousness and was transferred to the intensive care unit at a nearby hospital.
The defendants were arrested and investigated. After proven guilty, they were referred to the criminal court, which sentenced them to death after obtaining the permission of the Grand Mufti.

12 September 2022 :

Egypt’s Grand Mufti approved the execution of Judge Ayman Haggag and an associate who were convicted of murdering Haggag’s television presenter wife, government-owned newspaper al-Ahram reported on 11 September 2022.
Haggag and businessman al-Gharabli are due to be executed by hanging after the country’s top religious authority approved a court sentence that was handed down in August.
The pair were convicted of murdering Haggag’s wife Shaimaa Gamal in June, who presented a show on Giza’s LTC TV.
Her body was found in a villa following a tipoff from al-Gharabli who had confessed to his role in the crime.
Haggag had reported his wife as missing three weeks earlier.
In reality, the judge had lured his wife to the remote villa where he had already dug her grave, according to a statement from the prosecution.
He then struck her on the head and strangled her to death, with the help of al-Gharabli.
They placed her body in the grave and poured corrosive material over it to make it unrecognizable to forensic experts.
Prosecutors say that Gamal had blackmailed her husband, giving him cause to plot her murder.
Haggag claimed that he had killed his wife in self-defense after she allegedly attacked him with a knife.
However, prosecutors noted that no knife was found at the scene of the crime, and Haggag made no mention of self-defense in his confession.
They also pointed out that al-Gharabli’s confession did not corroborate Haggag’s claim of self-defense.
The pair’s sentence can be appealed in Egypt’s court of cassation within 60 days.

04 September 2022 :

The Criminal Court in Egypt has sentenced five defendants who are friends to death by hanging, and sentenced another to life imprisonment, Middle East Monitor reported on 31 August 2022, citing Al-Watan newspaper.
According to the paper, the court has already referred the cases to the country's highest religious authority – the Grand Mufti – who in turn approved the death penalties.
The six defendants are accused of pursuing and ambushing a man and his friend in the 6th of October city to steal a bag of cash.
The defendants stopped the victims' car and asked the two men to exit it and hand over the bag. When the men refused, the defendants shot them, killing one of them and seriously injuring the other.

31 August 2022 :

An Egyptian criminal court sentenced a judge to death on 16 August 2022 for the murder of his wife, in what is one of the most high-profile murder cases in the country in recent months.
The public prosecutor's office said last month that Ayman Hajjaj had been charged with the "premeditated murder" of his wife, Shaima Gamal - a well-known journalist and TV presenter - along with his accomplice, businessman Hussein al-Gharabli. 
The criminal court has referred the case to the grand mufti of Egypt. The next court hearing is set for 11 September, when the approval of the death penalty by the Grand Mufti will be announced. 
Gamal was last seen 22 days ago outside a shopping mall in the governorate of Giza with her husband. Her body was found after a witness came forward with information about her alleged murder.
Accompanied by a forensic doctor, the witness guided authorities to the location of Gamal's body on 26 July, according to a statement by the public prosecution. 
The witness, who is thought to be Hajjaj's accomplice, led police to a farm where the body was buried.
His lawyer, Ibrahim Tantaw, told the Masrawy news site that Gamal had been the suspect's "secret" second wife for more than eight years, and had threatened to make his first wife aware of their marriage following a heated exchange.
Tantaw said that after an altercation in which they exchanged a series of insults, the husband struck Gamal three times on the head with a gun and strangled her with the scarf she was wearing, causing her to suffocate and die.
The lawyer's client allegedly witnessed the crime and was threatened with the same weapon and briefly held captive by the judge.
He managed to escape and went to the police shortly afterwards, according to his lawyer. 

29 August 2022 :

After 20 months since the court ruling, the death sentence was carried out on 11 August 2022 for two men who were found guilty of the killing of a 24-year-old woman, Maryam Mohamed, in Cairo’s Maadi.
The death sentence was carried out after the rejection of the appeal submitted to the Court of Cassation, a source revealed to local media.
In October 2020, Maryam Mohamed was killed while crossing the street after the two defendants in a traveling car attempted to steal her handbag, dragging her body along the road as they drove past. A firearm and another weapon were also found in the possession of the defendants when they were arrested.
A statement released by the Egyptian Public Prosecution revealed that a third man was charged with assisting the two defendants by providing them with his vehicle for the purposes of carrying out the crime.

07 July 2022 :

The Mansoura Criminal Court sentenced the murderer of the student Naiyera Ashraf to death on 6 July 2022, after the Mufti approved the Court’s unanimous decision of execution.
The convict - Mohamed Adel - was found guilty of premeditatedly killing Naiyera Ashraf, a Mansoura University student, who was treacherously murdered in front of the university’s gate. He stabbed the victim to death in a public street after she rejected his advances — a case that has sparked widespread outrage.
A video of the crime went viral, showing the victim, identified as Naiyera Ashraf, 21, being stabbed by a young man outside her university. The crime triggered widespread anger both in Egypt and beyond, having been followed a few days later by a similar incident in which Jordanian student Iman Irshaid was shot dead on a university campus.
Naiyera had previously reported the alleged perpetrator to the authorities, fearing that he would attack her, according to her father and witnesses. The maximum penalty for murder is death in Egypt. "He stabbed her several times," said the prosecution, which found "messages threatening to cut her throat" on the victim's phone.

04 July 2022 :

An Egyptian court on 28 June 2022 sentenced to death a man after finding him guilty of murdering Nayera Ashraf, a fellow university student who refused his advances.
Ashraf was beaten and stabbed multiple times in broad daylight last week in front of shocked onlookers by a male student whose marriage proposal she had rejected, according to a prosecution statement.
The family of the slain young woman welcomed the verdict announced by the Mansoura Criminal Court, according to the semi-official Cairo 24 website. 
A judge said that Mohamed Adel, the convicted killer, was sentenced to death and that the case is now with the Grand Mufti to issue his non-binding opinion on the ruling.
The trial had begun on 26 June after a video went viral appearing to show the 21-year-old victim being stabbed by a fellow student outside Mansoura University.
Footage of the incident showed the assailant being later restrained by bystanders and arrested by the police, local media reported.
Ashraf had previously reported the alleged perpetrator to the authorities, fearing that he would attack her, according to her father and witnesses.
Adel confessed to the murder.

13 June 2022 :

An Alexandria Criminal Court sentenced on 11 June 2022 a 60-year-old man to death for murdering Coptic Orthodox priest Arsanios Wadid last month in the Egyptian coastal city.
The court verdict was issued after the grand mufti — the country’s top Muslim legal authority — approved the punishment, as the mufti’s non-binding consultative opinion is legally required in death penalty cases as per the Egyptian penal code.
The 56-year-old victim — a priest at the Church of the Virgin Mary and Mar Boulos — was stabbed to death on the evening of 7 April as he was walking along the Mediterranean corniche in Alexandria’s Sidi Bishr District.
The assailant - Nehru Tawfiq - was apprehended hours later and confessed to the crime.
The defendant later adjusted his confession, however, claiming that the knife found in his possession was just for self-defence and that he was not aware of what he was doing on the day of the incident, according to the prosecution.
The prosecution added that a mental health evaluation determined that the man showed no signs of a psychological disorder and was fully cognisant and possessed agency while committing the crime.
The prosecution also checked surveillance cameras at the crime scene and obtained the testimonies of 17 eyewitnesses.
Furthermore, the prosecution later learned that he had joined extremist groups and he had also previously served a 20-year prison sentence for joining an outlawed group.
Oddly enough, the suspect refused to be defended by a lawyer, choosing instead to simply deny the charges levelled against him.
On 18 May, the court referred a preliminary death sentence for the defendant to the country’s mufti.
The ruling of 11 June is not final and can be appealed before the country’s Court of Cassation.

22 May 2022 :

An Egyptian court on 18 May 2022 sentenced to death a man accused of the murder last month of a Coptic priest in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, judicial sources said.
The Alexandria court’s ruling is subject to approval by the mufti of the republic.
The sources said the defendant was found guilty of voluntary homicide after a court-ordered psychological assessment found him “responsible for his actions.”
Father Arsanios Wadid died of his wounds in hospital after being stabbed on 7 April on Alexandria’s seafront promenade as he accompanied a group of young parishioners.
The assailant was grabbed by passers-by and handed over to police, who detained him in a psychiatric hospital because of doubts over his mental health.

22 February 2022 :

A man, convicted of murdering his friend by throwing him into the Nile, was handed down a death sentence in Egypt on 17 February 2022.
Last September, the victim, an engineer, disappeared for 11 days after having left his family home in the Delta province of Dakahlia to get money from his friend who owed him some money. 
His family reported his mysterious death to police, saying his mobile phone had been switched off.
His body was later found floating in the Nile. 
Police investigations showed that the man, identified as Ahmed Atef, had been thrown by his debt-ridden friend Mohammed into the river.
The suspect was arrested and admitted to having killed Atef to get rid of his requests for retrieving the money.
Mohammed owed Atef 680,000 Egyptian pounds ($43,288) in debts, according to media reports. 
Atef needed the money for hospital fees as his wife was expecting their 2nd child.
The defendant was later put on trial at a provincial criminal court that on 17 February sentenced to him to death after receiving approval from Egypt’s top Islamic authority, the mufti, a routine procedure in cases involving death sentencing.

14 February 2022 :

An Egyptian court has sentenced a man to death after convicting him of murdering his bride on the eve of their wedding, Gulf News reported on 11 February 2022, citing local media.
The verdict was issued by a criminal court in the provincial governorate of Qaliubia, north of Cairo. The court said it will send the ruling to the Mufti of Republic, Egypt’s top Islamic authority, for approval, a routine procedure in cases involving death sentencing. The court has set 6 March for a final verdict.
The case dates back to last October when the woman was found dead in an unused plot of land near her house.
Police investigations showed that the murderer was her cousin, who was set to marry her.
The suspect, identified only as Ahmed, admitted to having lured the woman and fatally stabbed her, saying he had unwillingly agreed to marry her to please his parents while he was in love with another woman.
Having made sure, his would-be wife had died, he fled the scene with her mobile phone as he had earlier called her to lure her from her house.
The defendant was charged with premeditated murder.

07 February 2022 :

Two Egyptian brothers have been sentenced to death for killing their father after learning about him raping their sister (his daughter), Gulf News reported on 5 February 2022 citing local news.
Zagazig Criminal Court in Sharqia Governorate has also sentenced the victim’s wife and three daughters to two years in jail for helping the two brothers in killing their father.
The Director of Sharkqa Security received a report last year from the Director of Criminal Investigation, saying that police had found a body for someone called “Muslam A.M.kh” and they suspected a foul play.
Police investigation concluded that the man was premeditatedly killed by his sons and wife. The victim’s daughters are said to have given their father a medicine that caused him to fall unconscious. He was then handed over to his two sons who beat him and strangled him to death.
The duo admitted to killing their father in cooperation with their sisters and father’s wife for raping their youngest sister.
The court verdict was approved by the Grand Mufti.

02 February 2022 :

A man has been sentenced to death after raping and murdering his own mother in Tanta, Egypt, The Filipino Times reported on 31 January 2022.
The Tanta Criminal Court, headed by Counselor Jamal Aqrab, sentenced 26-year-old A.M. to death by hanging after the court found out that the man used a screwdriver to kill his mother after raping her at the Al-Santa Center.
The court stated that the man faced charges for committing premeditated murder of his mother, as he had the intention and resolved to kill her and waited for the opportunity to do his heinous act.
In addition, the court found out that as soon as he found out that his mother was in their residence alone, he used the screwdriver with the intent of killing her as revealed in the anatomical reports.

11 January 2022 :

Ismailia Criminal Court on 5 January 2022 sentenced to death Abdel Rahman Nazmy, known as “Dabour” over charges of brutally murdering a citizen and attempting to kill two others in a crowded street in Ismailia.
The ruling came after the court referred the case for religious advisory from Grand Mufti. The court earlier also handed him a fine worth 100,000 pounds.
Last November, the defendant was accused of intentionally beheading a citizen in Ismailia and attempting to kill two others.
Dabour was arrested shortly afterwards and was referred to the Public Prosecution, which ordered holding him for four days pending investigations before renewing his detention for 15 days and setting a date for his trial.
A forensic report revealed that the defendant did not show any symptoms of mental or psychological disturbance that might have affected his awareness and will during the crime, the prosecution said.
Footage had circulated on social media, before they were deleted for violating terms, of a person in his twenties, attacking an older man with a cleaver, beheading him, and walking among people while holding the man’s head.
The videos have triggered a state of intimidation, grief, and wrath, with relatives of the victim and social media users calling for justice to be served.

01 August 2022 :

An Egyptian court has called for the execution of a young man to be broadcast live. The condemned was convicting of stabbing his classmate at Mansoura University to death.
In a July 24 letter to the Egyptian Parliament, the Mansoura criminal court requested a legal amendment be made to allow the execution to be aired live on television.
“A broadcast, even if only a part of the start of the proceedings, could achieve the goal of deterrence, which was not achieved by broadcasting the sentencing itself,” the letter read.
On June 20, chilling video footage showed Mohamed Adel kill Naira Ashraf at their university campus. According to local reports, she had been about to sit for final exams when he stabbed her several times in front of onlookers. The crime shocked Egypt.
The court’s request was met with mixed reactions in Egypt. Some observers have expressed support of the idea to air the execution in the name of retribution and others argue that it would only spread violence in the community.
Ahmed Shawki Abu Khatwa, a professor of criminal law and former dean of the Faculty of Law at Mansoura University, told Al-Monitor, “The court requested the legislature to introduce an amendment to the penal code to allow the broadcasting of the death penalty. It is imperative to have a legal text to allow this.”
He added, “In my opinion, this is not a very pleasant thing to do. Never has a death sentence been carried out in public in modern Egypt since the law of 1937," meaning Egypt's penal code. "I don’t believe that telecasting the execution will deter others but rather leave the public numb to the sight of violence and entrench the idea of revenge. This is not the desired effect that the court wants to achieve.”
Abu Khatwa said that he does not believe parliament will respond to the court’s request, explaining, “It is true that the convict committed a heinous crime, but he will pay his debt to the community by being punished. In this sense, all his rights should be preserved, including "the implementation of the sentence in accordance with the legal procedures.”

07 March 2022 :

An Egyptian man, who was sentenced to death for killing his three children with help of his two wives, died in prison before the death penalty could be carried out, Gulf News reported on 3 March 2022, citing local media.
Media did not mention how he died.
The man and his two wives, including the mother of the two boys and girl, were found guilty of killing the three children by drowning them in a bucket filled with water.
On 28 February, the Cairo Criminal Court handed Ahmed, Hala and Iman, the death penalty after convicting the trio of premeditated first degree murder. According to court papers, the father committed the crime after the second wife, who did not have children, made him sceptical about his children’s lineage. The mother of the children was also involved in the crime and found guilty.
The court referred the papers of the three convicts to Egypt’s Mufti for approval before the execution. The shocking crime, described by Egyptian media as 'Al Marj Massacre', took place in 2017.