charged with unlawfully communicating with a foreign country with the intention of damaging the country's military, political and diplomatic status and its national interest in exchange for receiving money from the State of Qatar (Qatar espionage case). The accusations also allegedly included the possession of reports and documents relevant to issues of national security and membership of an unlawful group. 14. The Complainant avers that the evidence relied on by the Court was mainly secret investigations by national security, eyewitness testimony which lacked any supporting evidence, and the confessions of some of the Victims, which they later withdrew on the basis that they were obtained under torture. The Complainant alleges that this torture included submersion for long periods in freezing cold water, electric shocks, being chained to a metal bedframe upside down and chained in restrictive positions for long periods and whipping. The Complainant alleges that as a result of the t Victims had fractured ribs and damaged nerves. The Complainant fur rture some of the er avers that the Victims' lawyers were not giv.en a chance to present their defence, and that ·the Court added new charges which had not been investigated by the prosecutors and on which the Victims were never interrogated. 15. The Complainant submits that there is no further right of appeal from the Court of Cassation or the Supreme Military Court of Appeals. Articles alleged to have been violated 16. The Complainant alleges violation of Articles 4, 6 and 7 of the African Charter. Prayers 17. The Complainant requests the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (the African Commission) to: (a) Issue provisional measures to direct the Egyptian authorities to suspend the death sentences while the proceedings before the Commission are being held, also that such directions should be extended to the four who have been sentenced in absentia, on the basis that they may be produced; (b) Make a finding that Egypt has violated Articles 4, 6, and 7 of the African Charter in its conduct of the trials and the imposition of the death penalty against the 20 defendants; (c) Procedure Make a decision for the Respondent State to set aside the death sentences and