The foundation will condemn the Egyptian Cassation Court’s decision to uphold the death sentences against 12 Islamic scholars in the demonstrations that will be held across Turkey following Friday prayer.

On June 14, the death sentences for 12 Islamic Scholars, including prominent Muslim Brotherhood leaders who had been convicted in a grossly unfair mass trial for participation in the 2013 Rab’a sit-in that ended with security forces killing at least 817 protestors, were upheld by the Cassation Court.

Those whose death sentences the Court upheld include senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders Mohamed al-Beltagy, 58, Osama Yassine, 56, Ahmed Arif, 40, Abdelrahman al-Barr, 58, and a prominent Brotherhood supporter and Islamic preacher, Safwat Hegazi, 56.

Al-Beltagy was a member of the 2012 parliament, and Yassine was a minister in the government of former President Mohamed Morsi, a senior Brotherhood leader who died in detention in 2019.

The 12 men whose death sentences were confirmed could face execution imminently if President al-Sisi does not act.

The Sisi administration, which removed the first elected president of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, from power and suspended the Egyptian constitution of 2012, has so far executed at least 91 innocent people over false accusations.

Executions by hanging have generally been carried out at the Cairo Central Prison. However, the prisons of Wadi Al Natrun and Burj Al Arab both house an execution chamber. (ILKHA)