The Egyptian court, which in late June sentenced to death a man who murdered a student under camera because she refused his advances, on Sunday demanded that his execution be broadcast live.
This trial, which was sent off in two days, was made particularly public: First, the video of the stabbing attack on Nayera Achraf in front of her university was massively shared online, then the trial of her assassin Mohammed Adel was filmed, extremely rarely, and even by some media broadcast live.
The case had also provoked a debate beyond Egypt, because a few days later Nayera Achraf, a Jordanian student, Imane Erchid, was shot dead in Amman, presumably for the same reasons.
The Mansoura court, 130 km north of Cairo, which handed down the death penalty a month after the crime, applied to the Court of Appeal for a special permit on Sunday to broadcast the execution live.
In its request, the court considers that “the transmission, even just of the beginning of the proceedings, could make it possible to deter the largest possible number”.
He also calls on Parliament to amend the law to authorize these broadcasts more frequently.
Egypt is the country with the highest number of death sentences, according to Amnesty International, and carried out the third highest number of executions in the world in 2021.
But these sentences are never carried out publicly or live, with rare exceptions. In 1998, for example, three men who killed a woman and her children in a burglary were executed live on television.
Several feminicides have made headlines in Egypt in recent weeks, including that of TV presenter Chaïma Gamal. Her husband, a judge on the State Council, is now appearing after an alleged “accomplice,” according to prosecutors, denounced him nearly three weeks after he reported her disappearance.
In March, a teenager was sentenced to five years’ probation for the suicide of a high school student whom he had blackmailed by posting nude photomontages of her on the internet.
If a quarter of the government and a third of parliament are women, that’s just a front for feminists, as that hasn’t stopped the government from proposing – unsuccessfully – in early 2021 a bill aimed at protecting the rights of the almost Restrict 50 million Egyptian women, for example by allowing their father or brothers to annul their marriage.