The Egyptian court that sentenced a man to death at the end of June for murdering a student in front of his university, after the young woman rejected his advances, demanded this Sunday that your performance is broadcast live.
This trial, which lasted two days, was particularly mediatic: first, the video of the knife murder of Nayera Achraf in front of his university was massively shared on the Internet. Then the trial of his murderer, Mohammed Adelwas recorded, something extremely rare and then broadcast live by some media.
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Furthermore, the case had sparked a debate outside of Egypt because a few days after the murder of Achraf, a Jordanian student, Imane Archid, was also shot dead in Amman, probably for the same reasons. The instance of Mansura, 130 km north of Cairo, which issued the death penalty a month after the crime, asked the Court of Appeal this Sunday for a exemption to be able to broadcast the performance live. In its request, the court considers that “dissemination, even if it is only of the beginning of the procedure, could allow dissuading the greatest number”. He also asked Parliament to amend the law to authorize these broadcasts more frequently.
Egypt is the country that imposes the most death sentences, according to Amnesty International. In 2021, the North African country carried out the third highest number of executions in the world. But, these sentences are never executed in public or live, with rare exceptions. In 1998, for example, three men who killed a woman and her children during a robbery were executed live on television.