Hisham Barakat
| Hisham Barakat | |
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| Prosecutor General of Egypt | |
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In office 10 July 2013 – 29 June 2015 |
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| 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 |
| Religion | Islam |
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 as politically motivated resulting in death sentences for hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. He was assassinated in a car bombing on 29 June 2015.
Barakat graduated from Cairo University with a B.A. in Law in 1973. Appointed to the Public Prosecution, he joined the judiciary and worked in courts of first instance and appeal courts. He became the head of the technical office of the president of the Cairo Appeals Court.
Barakat was appointed as Prosecutor-General by Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour after Abdel Meguid Mahmoud announced his resignation from the post in the aftermath of the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état. Barakat was sworn in on 10 July 2013.
On 14 July 2013, Barakat ordered the freezing of assets of 14 prominent Egyptian Islamists: Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide Mohammed Badie, and his deputies Khairat el-Shater, Mohamed Ezzat and Rashad Baioumy; Mahdi Akef, the Brotherhood's former supreme guide; Mohamed Saad al-Katatny, head of the Freedom and Justice Party, FJP deputy leader Essam al-Erian and general secretary Mohamed al-Beltagy; Salafi preacher Safwat Hegazy; Essam Sultan, vice president of the Wasat Party; Assem Abdel Maged, member of the Jamaa Islamiya Shura Council; Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, Flag Party president; Tarek al-Zomor, Building and Development Party secretary; and former MP Mohammed al-Omda.
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