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Although public executions have been discontinued, provincial cities still hold mass sentencing rallies, during which convicts wearing confessional placards are driven though the streets in open trucks.

Police have made hundreds of arrests, suspects have been paraded at a mass sentencing rally, and armed patrols have taken to the streets of cities across China after a spate of deadly attacks that authorities blame on Islamist extremists and separatists from the north-western region.

It was alarming, at the end of the largest mass sentencing in Egypt's modern history, to see five hundred men held responsible, so expeditiously and so severely, for one murder, when there have been no convictions — in fact, there has not been a criminal investigation — related to the deaths of the twelve hundred civilians killed in August.

Photos from the open-air mass sentencing showed police trucks parked near a running track.

Dozens of people have been detained and jailed for alleged extremist offences, some in public mass sentencing sessions.

In recent weeks, hundreds of suspects have been arrested and mass sentencing rallies have been broadcast on state TV.

The mass sentence, pronounced after just two brief hearings, prompted an outcry from local and foreign human-rights groups, the Egyptian bar association, Western governments and the UN.

The judge, Said Yusuf, has already reduced all but 37 of his earlier sentences to life in prison, apparently on the advice of the Grand Mufti, a government-appointed religious authority who may also query the later mass sentence.In this section Where will the rainbow end?

Family members outside of the court responded with cries of anguish after the mass sentence was announced.

Now comes yet more confirmation that these hopes were ill-founded, with a mass trial sentencing 683 people to death.

Mr Kerry will also raise the issue of the mass death sentencing of members of the Muslim Brotherhood.