'I found out at night that he would be hanged the next day,' Leila told AFP, which has used pseudonyms in this story to protect families' identities.
An Amnesty report this week ranks Egypt sixth globally in the number of people executed in 2018 behind China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and Iraq.
Many of the death sentences were handed down at mass trials involving hundreds of defendants and lasting just days."How many court sessions are needed to ensure that every prisoner is given a fair trial to explain their side of the story?" said Osama.He was one of 183 defendants accused of storming a Cairo police station and killing 11 policemen and two civilians.
UN special rapporteur Callamard said"the circumstances leading to the imposition of these sentences and their execution are a great matter of concern". She also blamed international powers for failing to hold Egypt accountable over its flagrant use of capital punishment. "This deafening silence has become an integral part to the spiralling human rights violations in Egypt"."He wasn't the same person I remember when I saw him in the morgue," Leila said of her brother.
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