Egypt: 'Horrifying Execution Spree', With At Least 57 Killed in Past Two Months

The Egyptian authorities have executed at least 57 people in the past two months in a "horrifying execution spree", nearly double the number recorded for the whole of 2019, Amnesty International said today.

Amnesty has spoken to lawyers and relatives of prisoners who have been executed or are currently on death row, and reviewed legal documents and reports from Egyptian NGOs, media articles and Facebook posts by relatives of murder victims as well as those executed.

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