Because she did not return his love, a student killed his classmate. For this he was sentenced to death. Millions are said to be able to watch his execution on TV.
Munich – A young man is to be publicly executed – live on Egyptian television. Because he killed his classmate. The competent court hopes that this will deter further murders of women and girls because of their gender, so-called femicides. That reports The New Arab.
Because the man sentenced to death is said to have stabbed the student in front of the university because she had rejected his advances. The bloody deed was recorded by a surveillance camera and the video circulated on the Internet in June.
Student kills fellow student in Egypt: victim is said to have rejected marriage proposals from her fellow student
The student had loud Egypt Independent declared in court that he had only brought the knife with him for defense, since his victim had previously threatened to set thugs on him. He only attacked his fellow student because she publicly insulted him.
However, the prosecutor held 25 witnesses, including students, security personnel from the university and employees in shops near the crime scene. The victim’s family and friends also said he had harassed and threatened the young woman after she rejected marriage proposals. She even reported him to the police.
Death penalty in Egypt: court wants to broadcast execution live as a deterrent
After only two days of hearings, the court ruled on premeditated murder in view of the clear evidence and the accused’s confession. The lawyers then turned to Parliament with a request for the live transmission of the enforcement, because “even the beginning of the process could provide more deterrence than the transmission of the verdict”.
According to Amnesty International, only China and Iran executed more people than Egypt in 2021. The death penalty was imposed 356 times during this period, and 83 such sentences were carried out at the same time.
But mostly the latter happens behind closed doors. An exception formed The New Arab according to the case in 1998 of three men who murdered a woman and her two children in her home in Cairo and were executed live on state television.
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Femicides in Egypt: a well-known news presenter was also recently a victim – of her husband?
In the latest case, the verdict is to be carried out by hanging. The sheet also refers to other recent cases that startled the country. A well-known news presenter was killed in June. Her husband, a high-ranking judicial officer, is considered a suspect. An accomplice who admitted his involvement had given the crucial clue.
A youth who was sentenced after the suicide of a schoolgirl got away with five years in prison. Pictures of her had previously been circulated on the Internet.
The report also recalls a 2015 UN survey. According to this, almost eight million Egyptian women were victims of violence inflicted on them by partners, relatives or strangers in public places. (mg)
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