An Egyptian military court sentenced 17 people to death on 11 October over their involvement in the 2016 and 2017 bombings of three churches and a police checkpoint that killed more than 80 people. According to Al-Ahram, nineteen others were sentenced to life in prison for the attacks. ISIS claimed responsibility for the April 2017 bombing of two Coptic Christian churches in the cities of Tanta and Alexandria. At least 45 people were killed in the strikes, which targeted the minority group on Easter. In December 2016, another attack at a Coptic church in Cairo killed 25 people, the attack was also claimed by ISIS. While acknowledging the attacks were “utterly reprehensible,” Amnesty International’s North Africa Campaigns Director Najia Bounaim said “those accused of involvement in these heinous crimes must be retried in a civilian court in proceedings that comply with international human rights law and fair trial standards”.