GENEVA - United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Monday that Egypt's death penalty convictions and mass trials are 'obscene and a complete travesty of justice'. In a statement, Pillay said that Egypt should release three al-Jazeera reporters jailed for seven years earlier in the day after being convicted of helping a 'terrorist organization', and she accused Egypt of 'crushing' the media. Those verdicts and the death sentences confirmed on Saturday for 183 Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters are the latest in a string of prosecutions 'rife with procedural irregularities and in breach of international human rights law', she said.
