Egyptian courts have handed down unprecedented numbers of death sentences in recent months, most of them for violent crime.
"Two hundred and thirty death sentences in six months", read the Jun. 24 headline of independent daily Al- Dustour. "Fifty in the last week alone".
The most high-profile case has been that of Hisham Talaat Mustafa, a high- ranking member of the ruling National Democratic Party, convicted of conspiring in the murder of Lebanese pop singer Suzanne Tamim a year ago in Dubai. On Jun. 25 Mustafa and an accomplice were sentenced to death.
The verdict was quickly approved by the Grand Mufti, Ali Gomaa. Under Egyptian law all capital sentences must be approved by the Grand Mufti, a state-appointed religious authority. More...
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