Egyptian police officers stand guard outside the defendant's box on June 26, 2022, the first day of the trial of Mohamed Adel, who was later found guilty of killing fellow University of Mansoura student Naira Ashraf after she rejected his advances, and sentenced to death. (Khaled Desouki/AFP via Getty Images)

Court in Egypt Wants To Broadcast Live Execution of Man Convicted of Femicide

The Media Line Staff

07/25/2022

A criminal court in Egypt wants to broadcast live the execution of a man convicted of femicide, saying it could deter future killing of women. The court in Mansoura in northern Egypt has asked the country’s parliament to amend the laws on capital punishment to allow the live broadcast of the execution of Mohamed Adel, who was found guilty last month of the premeditated murder of fellow university student Naira Ashraf, 21, after she rejected his romantic advances, The New Arab reported. The court said in a letter to parliament that broadcasting the execution, or even just the start of the proceedings, “could achieve the goal of deterrence.” A video of Adel stabbing Ashraf went viral on social media in June, shocking Egyptians. Capital punishment is rarely carried out in public or broadcast in Egypt, though the execution of three men was broadcast on state television in 1998; they had murdered a woman and her two children in their home in Cairo. Egypt reportedly carried out the world’s third highest number of executions in 2021.