Developments in the "Mansoura Student" case... The court demands the execution of the accused on air

An Egyptian court has demanded that the execution of the death sentence of a young man who was convicted of killing a girl in front of her university after she refused to be associated with him, be broadcast live to achieve the "desired public deterrence".

On July 6, the Mansoura Criminal Court sentenced a young religious man to death for killing a student in front of her university in the Nile Delta, north of Cairo, after she refused to associate with him, after the approval of the country's mufti.

The court said in the rationale for its ruling, part of which was seen by Agence France-Presse on Sunday: "Did the legislator not groan to make the execution of punishment by right witness, just as the blood shed without right has become witnessed?"

The court demanded the legislator (the House of Representatives) to amend the text of the legal article that allows broadcasting the execution of death sentences videotaped on the air, even if it is only a small part of the start of the procedures.

And she added: "It may be in this, what achieves the desired general deterrence, which was not achieved by broadcasting the pronouncements of judgments alone."

It is reported that in the late 1990s, Egyptian television broadcasted the execution of three convicts of murdering a woman and her children in their apartment for theft.

The Egyptian Public Prosecutor had referred the accused to the criminal court for the premeditated murder of the student, Naira Ashraf, who surprised her with a knife, stabbed her several times, and slit her throat in front of her university in Mansoura, Dakahlia Governorate.

The case sparked controversy and anger among the Egyptians on social media platforms, and was further spread by the occurrence of a similar crime in Jordan against a student named Iman Rashid who was killed by a young man, which prompted many Jordanians and Egyptians to demand the death penalty for the accused in both countries.

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