Three men are facing imminent execution in Egypt. Muhammed Gayiz Sabbah, Usama ‘Abed al-Ghani al-Nakhlawi and Younis Muhammed Abu Gareer were convicted of terrorist offences after a grossly unfair trial.
The three were tried before the (Emergency) Supreme State Security Court in Ismailia in connection with a series of bomb attacks in Taba and elsewhere on the Sinai Peninsula in October 2004.
Amnesty International condemned these attacks, which left at least 34 people dead, and called on the Egyptian authorities to bring those responsible to justice in accordance with international standards and without recourse to the death penalty.
The men denied the charges, but the emergency court sentenced them to death in November 2006. Ten other people were convicted in connection with the bomb attacks and sentenced to terms of imprisonment.
Muhammed Gayiz Sabbah, Usama ‘Abed al-Ghani al-Nakhlawi and Younis Muhammed Abu Gareer continue to be held on death row in separate cells in Liman Tora Prison and are allowed short family visits only once a month.
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MB students detention renewed for another 15 days
From Ikhwan Web…
Alexandria prosecution headed by attorney general Hamed Sarhan ordered on Thursday July, 12th, 2007 , 45 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) students jailed 15 days.
The students, from several universities, faced investigations last night followed by jail decisions and were moved later to Al-Tarin-based police station.
The 45 students belong to several governorates nationwide- 7 from Alexandria, 30 from Cairo, 2 from Giza, 2 from Menoufiya, 2 from Al Fayyum, 1 from Suez and an 1 from Bani Sweif. The State Security Police detained them on Friday June, 29, 2007, while they were spending their summer holiday in the Alexandrian coastal resort of Hanoville and Al-Dikhaila prosecution ordered them jailed.