<p>An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced a man to death for the murder of a student after she rejected his advances, a judicial source said, in a case that sparked widespread outrage.</p>.<p>The court found the defendant Mohamed Adel guilty of the "premeditated murder" of university student Nayera Ashraf after he confessed to the crime in court, according to the source.</p>.<p>The verdict, handed down in Mansoura north of Cairo two days after the trial opened on Sunday, will now be referred to the grand mufti, Egypt's top theological authority -- a formality in death penalty cases.</p>.<p>A video that went viral appeared to show Ashraf being stabbed outside her university earlier this month.</p>.<p>Adel had "stabbed her several times" according to the prosecution, which found "messages threatening to cut her throat" on the victim's phone.</p>.<p>Ashraf had previously reported her fears of attack to the authorities, according to her father and witnesses.</p>.<p>The verdict was met with celebrations in front of the courthouse in Mansoura, videos published by local media showed.</p>.<p>The crime has triggered widespread anger in Egypt and beyond, and was followed by a similar campus shooting in Jordan a few days later.</p>.<p>Jordanian police said Monday that the man suspected of the murder of student Iman Irshaid had "shot himself" after refusing to turn himself in.</p>.<p>Social media users have drawn comparisons between the two cases, decrying incidents of femicide in the Arab world.</p>.<p>Some called for the perpetrators to be sentenced to death, while others said men must "learn to take no for an answer".</p>.<p>Egypt carried out the third-highest number of executions in the world in 2021, according to Amnesty International.</p>.<p>Nearly eight million Egyptian women were victims of violence committed by their partners or relatives, or by strangers in public spaces, according to a United Nations survey conducted in 2015.</p>
<p>An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced a man to death for the murder of a student after she rejected his advances, a judicial source said, in a case that sparked widespread outrage.</p>.<p>The court found the defendant Mohamed Adel guilty of the "premeditated murder" of university student Nayera Ashraf after he confessed to the crime in court, according to the source.</p>.<p>The verdict, handed down in Mansoura north of Cairo two days after the trial opened on Sunday, will now be referred to the grand mufti, Egypt's top theological authority -- a formality in death penalty cases.</p>.<p>A video that went viral appeared to show Ashraf being stabbed outside her university earlier this month.</p>.<p>Adel had "stabbed her several times" according to the prosecution, which found "messages threatening to cut her throat" on the victim's phone.</p>.<p>Ashraf had previously reported her fears of attack to the authorities, according to her father and witnesses.</p>.<p>The verdict was met with celebrations in front of the courthouse in Mansoura, videos published by local media showed.</p>.<p>The crime has triggered widespread anger in Egypt and beyond, and was followed by a similar campus shooting in Jordan a few days later.</p>.<p>Jordanian police said Monday that the man suspected of the murder of student Iman Irshaid had "shot himself" after refusing to turn himself in.</p>.<p>Social media users have drawn comparisons between the two cases, decrying incidents of femicide in the Arab world.</p>.<p>Some called for the perpetrators to be sentenced to death, while others said men must "learn to take no for an answer".</p>.<p>Egypt carried out the third-highest number of executions in the world in 2021, according to Amnesty International.</p>.<p>Nearly eight million Egyptian women were victims of violence committed by their partners or relatives, or by strangers in public spaces, according to a United Nations survey conducted in 2015.</p>