Hisham Barakat

Hisham Barakat
Prosecutor General of Egypt
In office
10 July 2013 – 29 June 2015
PresidentAdly Mansour (Acting)
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
DeputyZakaria Abdel-Aziz Osman
Preceded byAbdel Meguid Mahmoud
Succeeded byZakaria Abdel-Aziz Osman (Acting)
Personal details
Born
Hisham Muhammad Zaki Barakat

(1950-11-21)21 November 1950
Died29 June 2015(2015-06-29) (aged 64)
Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt
Political partyIndependent

Hisham Muhammad Zaki Barakat (Arabic: هشام محمد زكي بركات Hišām Muḥammad Zakī Barakāt; 21 November 1950 – 29 June 2015) was Prosecutor General of Egypt from 2013 to 2015. During his term as state prosecutor, he was responsible for thousands of controversial prosecutions, including several widely deemed politically motivated resulting in death sentences for hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.[1] He was assassinated in a car bombing on 29 June 2015.

  1. ^ Kingsley, Patrick; Cairo, Patrick Kingsley (29 June 2015). "Egypt's chief prosecutor Hisham Barakat killed by Cairo bomb". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 July 2015.