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On Tuesday, 28 June, Mansoura Criminal Court sentenced 21-year-old university student Mohamed Adel to death, following his trial on the murder of fellow student Nayera Ashraf last week. The death sentence is preliminary and will be confirmed after Egypt’s Grand Mufti either approves or rejects the punishment, a non-binding legal tradition in Egypt for all death sentences across the country. In the first hearing on Sunday, 26 June, the court issued a media gag order regarding all the trial proceedings…
