The Rights Organization opposes Egypt’s mass executions.

In October, Egypt sentenced 49 prisoners in just 10 days, the Human Rights Watch is calling on the government to promptly stop carrying out death sentences. “The mass killings in Egypt of thousands of people in a matter of days was absurd,” Joe Stork of HRW said. The rights group said it gathered the executions from stories in pro-government newspapers between October 3 and 13, as these killings are not usually announced-or even told by the family of the prisoner, the group said.

“In Egypt, the systemic lack of fair trials, especially in political cases, makes any death penalty a violation of the right to life,” added Stork. Among those executed were two women. Of the 49 killed, 15 were accused of suspected participation in political violence following Egypt’s first freely elected president, Mohamed Morsi,’s military insurrection in July 2013. Morsi stemmed from the Muslim Brotherhood ranks, the oldest Islamist party in the world.

The authorities have outlawed the party and summarily executed most of its leaders, including the former president, after his expulsion. “Last year, Morsi collapsed in a court, a death that human rights groups said was proof of Egyptian prisons’ “inhumane life conditions”. In 3 different cases, including 10 prisoners suspected of launching attacks in 2014 on the Ajnad Masrm armed group, some of the executed were found guilty.