A court in Egypt has sentenced five people to death for damaging an oil pipeline last November and causing an explosion and fire in which nine people were killed and eleven were wounded. The Damanhour Criminal Court in Beheira Governorate passed the sentences yesterday. Five others were sentenced to life imprisonment. According to Al-Masry Al-Youm, the court also ordered the defendants to pay the company that […]
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An Algerian appeals court on Wednesday upheld 15-year and 12-year sentences for two former prime ministers jailed in corruption cases that were brought in response to mass protests against the ruling elite, Reuters reports. The court in Algiers also halved five-year prison sentences for two former industry ministers and reduced the prison terms of prominent businessmen. Former prime ministers Ahmed Ouyahia and Abdelmalek Sellal were jailed […]
A Houthi court in the Yemeni capital Sanaa yesterday passed the death sentence on 19 senior army officers loyal to the UN-recognised government of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi. Details were made public by the defendants’ lawyer. Abdul Basit Ghazi said on Facebook that the sentences were handed down by the Specialised Criminal Court. The lawyer pointed out that Vice President Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar and Defence Minister […]
On Monday, the Military Court in Egypt sentenced 112 detainees to life in prison, alleging that they have been affiliated to Hasm Movement that the Egyptian authorities classify as terrorist, and involved in case No. 64 of 2017, Northern Military Prosecution Cairo, known as the Assistant Attorney General or the Case of Hasm Movement (HM). The court also sentenced three defendants to aggravated imprisonment for 15 years, in addition to issuing a […]
The Iranian judiciary announced yesterday that it has allowed 54,000 prisoners to serve part of their sentences at home in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in the country’s overcrowded prisons. Iranian judiciary spokesman, Gholamhossein Esmaili, told reporters in the capital Tehran that since last week 54,000 prisoners were granted furlough; allowing them to leave prison in the knowledge they will be returned. He […]
An Egyptian criminal court today sentenced to death a former Egyptian military officer, who defected from the army and joined jihadists, along with 36 other militants, for their alleged responsibility for a number of terrorist attacks in the country. Hisham Ashmawi and other defendants were convicted of 54 charges after carrying out several terror attacks including assassinations of policemen, according to local media. The ruling comes after the […]
A court in Bahrain has sentenced a citizen to three years in prison for burning an Israeli flag during a protest held in support of the Palestinians, Al-Bilad has reported. An appeal against the sentence has been rejected by the High Court of Appeal. The identity of the man involved was not revealed. The court convicted him and others on charges that included rioting and burning […]
Human rights experts in Bahrain are concerned that a court has upheld the death sentences in a case in which the torture of the defendants has been exposed, Anadolu Agency has reported. The two defendants were convicted of killing a police officer in a bomb explosion in 2014. The authorities in Bahrain arrested Mohamed Ramadhan and Hussain Moosa in February 2014 and they were convicted ten months […]