Hisham Barakat | |
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| Prosecutor General of Egypt | |
| In office 10 July 2013 – 29 June 2015 | |
| President | Adly Mansour (Acting) Abdel Fattah el-Sisi |
| Deputy | Zakaria Abdel-Aziz Osman |
| Preceded by | Abdel Meguid Mahmoud |
| Succeeded by | Zakaria Abdel-Aziz Osman (Acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Hisham Muhammad Zaki Barakat 21 November 1950 |
| Died | 29 June 2015 (aged 64) Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt |
| Political party | Independent |
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.
- ^ Kingsley, Patrick; Cairo, Patrick Kingsley (29 June 2015). "Egypt's chief prosecutor Hisham Barakat killed by Cairo bomb". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 July 2015.