In May 2015, an Egyptian court pronounced death sentences on ousted president Mohammed Morsi and more than 100 other Muslim Brotherhood supporters over a mass prison break in 2011. In December 2016 Egypt's highest court, the Court of Cassation, has overturned death sentence against ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
The Detention Review Panel, a team of UK legislators and attorneys commissioned by Morsi's family, warned last year that he was likely to face "premature death" in prison, where he was being held in low-standard conditions and received "cruel" and "inhuman" treatment.
Since becoming president following the military coup in 2013, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has ruled Egypt with an iron fist. The government has launched a crackdown on anyone suspected of opposing el-Sisi.
Amnesty International has described the
situation in Egypt as the worst human rights crisis in the country in decades,
with the state systematically using arbitrary arrests and enforced
disappearances to silence any dissent and
Abuse and extrajudicial killings are common, with a recent report accusing the Egyptian government of also kidnapping and torturing children, providing evidence that at least six children have been tortured in custody, and a further 12 have been disappeared from their families since 2015.
International human rights organizations have criticized the human rights situation in Egypt in light of a wave of executions and political arrests which have been perpetrated since Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi came to power after a coup in 2013.
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