A UNIVERSITY student who stabbed a classmate after she declined his marriage proposal will be executed live by an Egyptian court, according to reports.
The gruesome murder of young Naira Ashraf outside her university in northern Egypt by Mohamed Adel, 21, sent shockwaves across the country last month.
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Adel was found guilty in the murder of the student at Mansoura University. The court sentenced him to death on July 6.
The Egyptian court requested that Parliament broadcast the execution live to deter other similar crimes.
Mansoura Courthouse wrote this in its letter addressed to MPs “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.”
The verdict was made public on July 24, although appeals may be filed.
Farid El-Deeb, the lawyer for defendant Farid El-Deeb, stated that his client would appeal against the sentence.
“We still have 60 days to challenge death sentence against Adel,”He is quoted as saying.
El-Deeb is an Egyptian prominent lawyer. El-Deeb was the late lead defense lawyer for Hosni Mubarak.
CCTV captured the horrendous attack. Naira is seen being attacked by her attacker as she gets off her bus on June 20 for her final exams.
He jumps on her as she falls to the floor and repeatedly stabs her in the neck.
Naira succumbed to her injuries after her throat was severed.
Later, it was revealed that the killer had stalked and killed the student via Facebook after he ghosted her on the platform and refused to marry him.
Public television has not aired a capital punishment since 1998 when state TV broadcast three men convicted of killing a woman in Cairo and her children.
Hanging is the execution method used in northeast Africa for civilian convictions.
The recent high-profile femicides that took place in Egypt have caused a lot of fury.
Women have struggled to exercise their rights due to patriarchal laws and in some cases, strict interpretations by Islam.
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