Amnesty International condemned what it described as a "horrific and brutal execution" carried out two days ago against young men in Egypt, for the murder of a police officer.
The Muslim Brotherhood said that the incident reveals the absence of the rule of law, while anger prevailed over the communication sites, especially as some of the accused were under the legal age at the time of the accident.
Two days ago, a security official confirmed that the Egyptian authorities had implemented the death sentence against seven people convicted of killing a police officer in the Ismailia governorate overlooking the Suez Canal in eastern Egypt.
The official stated that the Prison Authority executed on Monday a death sentence for seven suspects, who were convicted of the killing of Captain Ahmed Abu Doma, an aide to a third section detective in Ismailia, adding, "The families received the bodies and were buried."
The events of the case date back to 2013, when Abu Doma was inspecting the security situation and came under fire by unknown persons riding a motorbike and a car.
Torture and violations
Amnesty International said that the trial was marred by serious allegations of torture and other serious violations of due process.
The international organization stated that three young victims appeared with visible bruises on their faces during a televised confession on November 26, 2013, that is, before the start of their trial and five days after the police officer was killed, in flagrant disregard of their right not to criminalize themselves.
The forensic medicine report - seen by Amnesty International - stated that no technical evidence was found contradicting the allegations of five men that they were beaten with sticks, electric shocks, and extinguished cigarettes on their bodies, as well as being handcuffed for long periods of time.
Absence of law
For his part, the media spokesman for the Egyptian Brotherhood, Talaat Fahmy, said, "The execution of the death sentence confirms the absence of the rule of law and the rule of random law, because the incident was a quarrel in which he did not know who was sure of the shooting, and where he was from."
Fahmy added that "killing seven people after confessions extracted under torture and threatening to violate the symptoms without respecting the sanctity of these blessed days of the first ten days of the month of Dhu al-Hijjah, can only be described as terrorism that is being pursued by coupists whose hearts are free of mercy."
He stressed that "a new crime is added to the record of the crimes of the fascist coup that underestimates the lives of Egyptians and takes their lives in order to preserve his authority and hegemony over the country, in full view of the whole world."
Anger and questions
Communication and anger prevailed over the media after the authorities confirmed the execution of the death sentence against the seven defendants, and Twitterers said that the absence of justice and transparency makes the execution of the accused in Egypt highly suspect.
Pioneers of communication circulated letters from some of the accused, revealing that they were tortured and forced to confess to killing the police officer.
Others asked about the legal age of some of the accused, with one of them reaching 21 years and the other 24, meaning that they were under the legal age at the time of the accident 7 years ago, but others said that the published ages are for the accused at the time of the accident and not at the time of executions.
#Fajr_Fajr, may God have mercy on you ... .. # Execution of innocent people, all of whom are young, the oldest of whom did not exceed 28 years now, in a crime fabricated for them by killing an officer in Ismailia and the rest of the youth are now between 18 and 22 years old, I mean, in 2013 at the time of the crime, they were # children in the rule of law, yet they were executed in # Injustice
- LORD Qadry_15K (@qafattah) July 30, 2020
The execution of 7 young men accused of killing an officer,
but when an officer caused the killing of 37 in Arabia, the deportations were an administrative mistake that would not be punished,
but would be promoted đČ
This is the situation of the Egyptian people in the time of the fateful military coup
- Abu Abdullah (@abdlrahimslim) July 30, 2020
# Asi_ba_alnal
execution of seven young people in Ismailia đ ... the
length of the pure blood BISSELL Mafeesh need it difficult
- Aisha (alternate account) (@lifeispainah) July 29, 2020
Naharda Sisi and his gang were executed seven young Ashan killed an officer of the Rjalth
question here are the Kasai 7 confounded execution needed to be in 3 or at least 2 prison sentences but executed seven people Dah evidence that Sisi Bicol for Rjalth Mtkhvoh kill the people Htokhadd innocence
but kills Zabott Folan or gets With him the need to execute the people
- Khawaja Bisho (@elkwgabeho) July 29, 2020
Previous executions
It is noteworthy that Egypt ranked sixth on the list of countries that most carry out executions in 2018, according to a report issued by Amnesty International in April 2019, after China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and Iraq.
Last month, the Egyptian authorities executed the Libyan Abdul Rahim Al-Mesmari, who they said was the mastermind of an attack in the Oasis region southwest of Cairo in October 2017, which killed 16 policemen.
In March, a death sentence was carried out against the former Egyptian army officer, Hisham Ashmawi, for involvement in several major attacks targeting security forces and prominent personalities after he was extradited by the Libyan side in 2019.
In February the authorities implemented the military court's decision to execute eight people on charges of carrying out the 2016 and 2017 attacks, in which about 75 Egyptian Christians were killed in a case known to the media as "church bombing."