US urges Egypt against executions in mass sentencing
March 25, 2014
WASHINGTON – The United States on Tuesday urged Egypt not to execute 529 supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi who were given the death penalty in a mass sentencing which has triggered an international outcry.
Deputy State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf called the sentencing “shocking.”
“The imposition of the death penalty for 529 defendants after a two-day summary proceeding cannot be reconciled with Egypt’s obligations under international human rights law, and its implementation of these sentences, as I said, would be unconscionable,” she stressed.