A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 87 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Government response measures asking the Government to stay the executions until it has decided the merits of the case. The Government’s delegation before the African Commission in May 2007 indicated that the legal adviser in the office of the President has advised ratification of the death sentences and that the President might ratify at any time. of the investigation and trial minutes, took heed of the statements of all the witnesses of the defence and responded to the request of the three suspects to refer them to the Forensic Medicine Authority. The court heard the pleadings of the suspects’ defence throughout the 12 sessions. On 30 November 2006, the court issued by consensus the death sentences on the three suspects after it received the opinion of the Mufti of Egypt who confirmed that the death penalty concurs with Islamic Shari’a. According to the provisions of the Egyptian law, courts should seek the opinion of the Mufti on the issuance of death sentences in order to confirm how far the death penalty concurs with Islamic Shari’a. The Mufti’s opinion in that regards is an advisory one. The court sentenced the lapse of claim on two persons who were dead, life imprisonment on one person, and 5 to 10 years’ imprisonment on the other suspects. After the judgment was issued, the three convicts brought two grievances to the Judgments Ratification Office in which they repeated the same pleas that were previously presented to the court. The Counsellor (Judge in High Court appointed by the Supreme Judicial Council) who examined the judgment studied the grievances of the convicts and concluded in his memorandum that: the judgment satisfied all the legal elements according to Egyptian law; the judgment took into consideration evidence upon which the court established the validity of the claim against the accused persons through their statements, testimonies of witnesses, the police