Egypt applies the death penalty for the murderer of a young woman who rejected his marriage proposal

June 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Egyptian authorities have executed this Wednesday Mohamed Adel, convicted of murdering Nayera Ashraf, a 21-year-old girl and a university classmate, in June 2020 for rejecting his marriage proposal.

The execution of Adel has been carried out in the Jamasa penitentiary, after a court confirmed the death sentence in February, reports the Egyptian daily ‘Al Ahram’.

Ashraf was stabbed and her throat slit to death on the Mansoura University campus, events that were recorded by the assassin himself and published on his social media, generating a great impact both inside and outside Egypt, and reopening the debate in a country with high rates of violence against women.

Executions in Egypt, the third country in 2021 that applied it the most, are usually carried out four years after the conviction, although in this case, the Prosecutor’s Office requested that the process be accelerated due to its repercussions.

During the trial, the Prosecutor’s Office presented 25 witnesses, including students and security guards who saw the crime. Friends of the victim said that Adel had been harassing and threatening her after she rejected her marriage proposal, facts that were corroborated with complaints to the Police.