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Egyptian man sentenced to death over murdering university student

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  • Source: Agencies
  • 28 Jun 2022 18:09
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An Egyptian court finds a man guilty of the premeditated murder of university student Nayera Ashraf after he confessed to the crime in court.

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    Murdered university student Nayera Ashraf

An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced a man to death for the murder of a student after she rejected his advances, a judicial source said, in a case that sparked widespread outrage.

The court found the defendant Mohammad Adel guilty of the "premeditated murder" of university student Nayera Ashraf after he confessed to the crime in court, according to the source.

The verdict, handed down in Mansoura north of Cairo two days after the trial opened on Sunday, will now be referred to the Grand Mufti, Egypt's top theological authority -- a formality in death penalty cases.

A video that went viral appeared to show Adel brutally cutting Ashraf's throat before she died just outside her university earlier this month.

Adel had "stabbed her several times," according to the prosecution, which found "messages threatening to cut her throat" on the victim's phone.

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Ashraf had previously reported her fears of attack to the authorities, according to her father and witnesses.

The verdict was met with celebrations in front of the courthouse in Mansoura, videos published by local media showed.

The crime has triggered widespread anger in Egypt and beyond, and was followed by a similar campus shooting in Jordan a few days later. 

Jordanian police said Monday that the man suspected of the murder of student Iman Irshaid had "shot himself" after refusing to turn himself in.

Social media users have drawn comparisons between the two cases, decrying incidents of femicide in the Arab world.

Nearly eight million Egyptian 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.

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