Sentence examples for mass trials from inspiring English sources

There have been a series of mass trials of alleged extremists in Egypt.

Some are defendants in the mass trials the government is conducting.

Mass arrests and mass trials have become key tools in the country's expanding "war on terrorism".

The outlawing of the Brotherhood, mass trials and death sentences and a media crackdown have drawn fire too.

On Wednesday, Egypt's chief prosecutor announced two more mass trials, with a total of nine hundred and nineteen defendants.

The government responded with a deadly crackdown and mass trials of activists and pro-reform politicians.

During the mass trials, "little or no evidence" is produced against those accused, it adds.

Hundreds of people including Morsi have also been sentenced to death in speedy mass trials denounced by the United Nations as "unprecedented in recent history".

At least 16,000 Egyptians have been jailed in the past 18 months on politicised charges, hundreds of them in mass trials.

Thousands of supporters have been arrested and put on mass trials in a campaign which human rights groups say shows the government is systematically repressing opponents.

Hundreds of Islamists have been sentenced to death in mass trials since Sisi, a former army chief, overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.