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Possible wrongful conviction ends in execution
Morocco News.Net
Tuesday 16th March, 2010
An Egyptian man, who may have been wrongfully convicted of murder, was hanged in Cairo last Wednesday.
Amnesty International has learned the man, Atef Rohyum Abd El Al Rohyum was executed in Isti’naf prison.
His family were not informed of his execution until they were asked to collect the body.
His co-accused, Jihan Mohammed Ali, a woman convicted in the same case, was executed in the city of Giza on the same day.
The two were accused of the murder of Jihan Mohammed Ali’s husband in January 2004.
Amnesty International had called for the death sentence to be commuted, and for Atef Rohyum Abd El Al Rohyum to be retried, after learning that he had been transferred to Isti’naf prison, where executions take place.
Atef Rohyum Abd El Al Rohyum was hanged despite evidence suggesting he was not guilty.
His family was not made aware that his appeal, filed with the Public Prosecutor in May 2009, had failed, despite a formal request made on Tuesday for information on its status.
Jihan Mohammed Ali had stated she acted alone in killing her husband and that Atef had done no more than help her move the body.
He requested a retrial based on this new evidence, but there has been no response from the authorities.
Jihan Mohammed Ali also claimed that she had acted in self defence as her husband was beating her.
She had been married to her husband while still at school.
At an earlier stage, following his arrest, Atef Rohyum Abd El Al Rohyum is reported to have been interrogated without the presence of a lawyer and tortured and otherwise ill-treated.
Those who say they witnessed him being tortured and harshly treated were not called to give evidence at his trial.
Executions in Egypt are not announced until after they have been carried out and condemned prisoners are not told the date and time of their execution.
The families of condemned prisoners are usually not made aware of the execution until they are called to collect the body.  Email this story to a friend
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` ~galljdaj+
03-16-10, 08:49 AM |
Egyptian man unfairly executed
Does this story sound like the cowardly posters that insite the killings of so many different Peoples? Their words of 'killing' so often are shouts from the back of rooms, like 'commie', and reak of hatefull bigotry!
And of course completely ignore the Rule of Law! And all similance of being Just! Their hate makes them 'Know the Truth', and the proofs are always messianic!
Can they all be egyptian? pretending to be US Citizens!
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Anonymous
03-16-10, 12:02 PM |
same old same old
Well if it isn’t old one tune galljdaj singing his song again.He seems to have a problem with lil Bush,Messianics,Back-of-the-room,Bigotry,and his usual Israiskis,oh!,and I forgot rule-of-law,Good grief mate!You got anything new?If you are being paid to post then you are grossly overpaid.
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secret slave
03-16-10, 12:04 PM |
19 accussed in 911 and how many dead victims keeps growing
salaam,
Tourism picture holder = terrorists plotter,
yet they arrest not every tourism picture holder passing though airport connections,
in connecting dots,
that possible terrorist equipment only gets tossed in possible terrorist trash containers without any court date procedure !
feeamanellaah
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