France urges Egypt to overturn mass death sentences

France called on Egyptian authorities to overturn mass death sentences issued in a trial this week over the 2013 Rabaa Al Adawiya sit-in, Reuters reports. The move is rare public criticism by Paris over its strong regional ally, the newswire notes. The United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet denounced yesterday Egypt’s decision saying they “represent a gross and irreversible miscarriage of justice.”