Football riot death sentences upheld

Egypt's Court of Cassation orders a retrial of the 21 people sentenced to death in connection with an infamous football riot in Port Said in 2012.

More than twenty football supporters have died in rioting outside a stadium in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

An Egyptian court sentences 26 people to death for founding a "terror group" with the aim of attacking ships using the Suez Canal.

>The husband of a 32-year-old woman with albinism is among four men sentenced to death for her 2008 killing in Nyamaruru Village. Zawadi Magindu’s attackers, who included her husband Nassoro Charles, cut her limbs and right hand with an axe and a machete.

An Islamic court sentences nine people to death after finding them guilty of blasphemy in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.

Egypt's top appeals court overturns death sentences given to 36 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including its spiritual leader Mohammad Badie.

A court in Egypt sentences to death 529 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood movement on charges including murder.

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More than 180 supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood have been sentenced to death over a 2013 attack on a police station near Cairo.