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Leading today\u2019s coverage of Egypt in the Western press is the execution of nine men<\/b> yesterday for the 2015 assassination of then-Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat, Reuters reports<\/a>. Amnesty International had called for their release<\/a>, citing unfair trials and confessions extracted under torture, then issued a statement<\/a> following the executions stating that they demonstrate \u201cEgypt\u2019s absolute disregard for life.\u201d The Guardian<\/a> picked up the story, noting that this brings the total number of executions to 15 in under three weeks. Deutsche Welle<\/a> and AFP<\/a> also have coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leading today\u2019s coverage of Egypt in the Western press is the execution of nine men yesterday for the 2015 assassination of then-Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat, Reuters reports. Amnesty International had called for their release, citing unfair trials and confessions extracted under torture, then issued a statement following the executions stating that they demonstrate \u201cEgypt\u2019s absolute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7233],"tags":[374,2386,72,10924,210],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-601216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt-in-the-news","tag-amnesty-international","tag-egypt-in-the-news","tag-enterpriseam","tag-hisham-barakat","tag-human-rights","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"609e8e3b-5dbe-432a-b87e-3c349cbdf326","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[601193],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nNine men executed in Egypt for 2015 prosecutor general assassination - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2019\/02\/21\/nine-men-executed-in-egypt-for-2015-prosecutor-general-assassination\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nine men executed in Egypt for 2015 prosecutor general assassination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Leading today\u2019s coverage of Egypt in the Western press is the execution of nine men yesterday for the 2015 assassination of then-Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat, Reuters reports. 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