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Cairo prison: The maximum penalty for murder in Egypt is the death penalty (archive image)
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The case caused horror in Egypt: in June, the student Naira Ashraf was attacked with a knife in broad daylight and fatally injured.
The crime took place at the gates of Mansura University.
The 21-year-old woman had previously rejected a marriage proposal from the perpetrator.
The man was sentenced to death for murder.
The judges are now advocating a public execution.
The court in Mansura has decided to change the law so that the execution of the convicted murderer can be broadcast live.
After a two-day trial, the man was found guilty of premeditated murder by the court in Mansura, about 130 kilometers north of Cairo.
The perpetrator made a confession before the court.
The court said in a letter to the Egyptian parliament that the transfer of execution, unlike sentencing, could achieve the goal of deterrence.
A video that is said to have captured the murder of the student had previously triggered a shock wave in Egypt.
The perpetrator attacked Ashraf with a knife and finally cut her throat.
Any help came too late for the young woman, she died on the way to the hospital.
Perpetrators repeatedly harassed and threatened the victim
The case also brings the issue of violence against women in Egypt to the fore because it revealed a possible failure of the authorities.
After the rebuffed advances, Ashraf was stalked by her eventual killer.
According to reports, the student was repeatedly harassed and threatened by her fellow students on social networks.
Eventually, she sought a restraining order, but was left defenseless.
According to the United Nations, almost eight million Egyptian women were victims of violence committed by their partners, acquaintances or strangers in public spaces in 2015.
Most recently, the debate was fueled by several murders.
This is how the TV presenter Schaimaa Gamal was killed.
Her husband, a senior judicial officer, was arrested after the crime.
According to the public prosecutor's office, an accomplice admitted to having been involved in the crime.
The maximum penalty for murder in Egypt is the death penalty.
Egypt ranks third in the world for the number of executions in 2021, according to Amnesty International.
However, the executions are rarely broadcast.
An exception was the 1998 execution of three men who had killed a woman and her two children in their apartment in Cairo.
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