executions in the world:

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legend:

  • Abolitionist
  • retentionist
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  • Moratorium on executions
  • Abolitionist for ordinary crimes
  • Committed to abolishing the death penalty

EGYPT

 
government: presidential republic
state of civil and political rights: Not free
constitution: 19 January 2014; amended 2019
legal system: mixed legal system based on Napoleonic civil and penal law, Islamic religious law, and vestiges of colonial-era laws; judicial review of the constitutionality of laws by the Supreme Constitutional Court; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations
legislative system: bicameral Parliament consists of Senate and House of Representatives
judicial system: Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) (consists of the court president and 10 justices); Court of Cassation (CC) (consists of the court president and 550 judges organized in circuits with cases heard by panels of 5 judges); Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) (consists of the court president and NA judges and organized in circuits with cases heard by panels of 5 judges); Courts of Appeal; Courts of First Instance; courts of limited jurisdiction; Family Court
religion: Muslim (predominantly Sunni) 90%, Christian (majority Coptic Orthodox, other Christians include Armenian Apostolic, Catholic, Maronite, Orthodox, and Anglican) 10%
death row: between 580 and 590, 2 thirds of them were condemned before 2010, people are under final death sentence, according to the Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) at the end of 2017
year of last executions: 0-0-0
death sentences: 1
executions: 1
international treaties on human rights and the death penalty:

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment


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