Amnesty International has just learned that Atef Rohyum Abd El Al Rohyum was executed by hanging on 11 March. His family was not informed of his execution until they were asked to pick up the body.
In Egypt, executions are not made public until after they have been carried out. Condemned prisoners are not told the date and time of their execution, and in practice their families are not made aware of the execution until they are called to collect the body – despite claims by the Egyptian authorities that relatives are permitted to visit the condemned person on the day appointed for execution.
Atef Rohyum Abd El Al Rohyum was executed despite evidence suggesting he was not guilty of the murder for which he was condemned. His family was not made aware that his appeal, filed with the Public Prosecutor in May 2009, had failed, despite a formal request made this Tuesday for information on its status.
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Egyptian man Atef Rohyum Abd El Al Rohyum was hanged in Cairo’s Isti'naf prison, and his female co-accused, Jihan Mohammed Ali, was executed in Giza for murdering Ali's husband in January 2004.
Ali claimed she killed her husband alone as he was beating her, and Atef only helped move the body. Atef was reportedly tortured and his family were not informed of his execution until they were asked to collect the body.
At an earlier stage, following his arrest, Atef Rohyum Abd El Al Rohyum is reported to have been interrogated without the presence of a lawyer and tortured and otherwise ill-treated.
Those who say they witnessed him being tortured and harshly treated were not called to give evidence at his trial.
Source: Amnesty International, March 12-13, 2010
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