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On 13 February 2012, Egypt's interim government announced the repeal of the death sentences issued by the Supreme Emergency State Security Courts against three men for their alleged roles in the October 2004 bombings in the Sinai Peninsula tourist resorts of Taba and Nuweiba and the 2005 bombings at Sharm el Sheikh. This major development follows a far-reaching decision of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights in a case brought by the Cairo-based organisation Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and INTERIGHTS.

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