assize of mort d'ancestor

assize of mort d'ancestor

J. whereas on 2 December 2014 an Egyptian criminal court handed down provisional death sentences against 188 defendants in the third such mass sentencing in 2014; whereas these mass trials have principally targeted members of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest opposition movement, which was declared a terrorist group by the authorities in December 2013; whereas these sentences are the latest in a string of prosecutions and court proceedings that have been rife with procedural irregularities and in breach of international law; whereas no one has been held to account for the excessive use of violence in August 2013, when security f ...[+++]orces raided camps on Rabaa al-Adawiya Square and killed 1 150 pro-Morsi demonstrators;

G. whereas on 2 December 2014 an Egyptian criminal court handed down provisional death sentences against 188 defendants in the third such mass sentencing in 2014; whereas these mass trials have principally targeted members of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest opposition movement, which was declared a terrorist group by the authorities in December 2013; whereas violations of the most basic human rights continue, with arbitrary arrests of tens of thousands of suspected members and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood; whereas c ...[+++]ourt proceedings defy the most basic standards of due process, and individuals are held without charges, including the case of Abdel Meguid Mashaly, adviser to the deposed president Mohammad Morsi;

J. whereas on 2 December 2014 an Egyptian criminal court handed down provisional death sentences against 188 defendants in the third such mass sentencing in 2014; whereas these mass trials have principally targeted members of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest opposition movement, which was declared a terrorist group by the authorities in December 2013; whereas these sentences are the latest in a string of prosecutions and court proceedings that have been rife with procedural irregularities and in breach of international law; whereas no one has been held to account for the excessive use of violence in August 2013, when security ...[+++]forces raided camps on Rabaa al-Adawiya Square and, according to an independent Egyptian fact-finding committee, killed 607 pro-Morsi demonstrators;

O. whereas, following the terrorist attack in August 2013 on a police station in the neighbourhood of Kerdasa, when eleven police officers and two civilians died, an Egyptian criminal court handed down provisional mass death sentences against 188 defendants on 2 December 2014;