Egyptian court has sentenced 37 people to death, including one the country's most high-profile fighters, on terrorism-related chargesThe Cairo Criminal Court said on Monday the defendants were charged with belonging to a local affiliate of the ISIL (ISIS) arThere is no doubt that those sentenced to death today have been convicted of serious crimes, including deadly attacks. However, the death penalty can never deliver justice, all the more so when it has been issued after a trial in which dozens of defendants say they were subjected to enforced disappearance and torture," Philip Luther, Amnesty International's research and advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa, said.
