Urgent Action outcome: Death sentences commuted to life imprisonment

Egypt’s Supreme Military Court of Appeals formally accepted an appeal on two death sentences.

On 26 February 2019, Egypt’s Supreme Military Court of Appeals formally accepted an appeal on the two death sentences of Ahmad Amin Ghazali and Abdul Basir Abdul Rauf. The judge commuted their death sentences to life imprisonment, almost a year after a judge in the same court had upheld their death sentences, in a case marred by torture and enforced disappearances. 

NO FURTHER ACTION IS REQUESTED FROM THE NETWORK. MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO SENT APPEALS.

This is the 8th and final update for UA 91/16 More information: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde12/9979/2019/en/