MANSOURA-(MaraviPost)-A court in Egypt has called for the live hanging of Mohamed Adel, 21 who stabbed his female classmate after she rejected his advances outside the Mansoura University in northern Egypt last month.
The Mansoura Courthouse made the petition in a letter to the Parliament asking for the execution of the convict to be broadcasted live on TV to deter similar crimes from happening in future.
In the letter, the court wrote: “The broadcast, even if only part of the start of proceedings, could achieve the goal of deterrence, which was not achieved by broadcasting the sentencing itself”.
Adel was given a death sentence after he was found to have killed his classmate, Naira Ashraf, by brutally stabbing her in Egypt.
According to the Independent, the convict stabbed Ashraf to death outside the university after she rejected his advances which sparked outrage across the Middle East.
Other reports suggest that Adal confessed to the crime adding that he wanted to marry Naira and when she turned down the offer, he killed her in a fit of rage.
He pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced to death on July 24 , a decision that had to go to Egypt’s ‘Grand Mufti’ Dr Shawki Allam for approval.
In Egypt, about eight million women were victims of violence committed by their partners or relatives, or by strangers in public spaces, according to a United Nations survey conducted in 2015.
The last time a capital punishment was in 1998, when state television broadcast the execution of three men who had killed a woman and her two children at their home in Cairo.
