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Egyptian court issues final death sentence against 7 in Libya Daesh cell case
 [Al Ahram] Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Saturday seven members of what is known in the media as the "Libya terrorist cell" to death on a number of terror-related charges.The court’s final verdict came following referral last September to the country’s Grand Mufti for a consultative non-binding opinion, as per Egypt’s penal code. The court also ordered life sentences on 10 other defendants, and 15 years on three defendants in the case. The defendants are charged with joining a terrorist cell in Egypt's governorate of Marsa Matrouh affiliated with the ISIS holy warrior group in Libya. The defendants are also charged with joining training camps of the terrorist group in Syria and Libya, and obtaining military training, as well as planning terrorist acts in Egypt. According to the court order, the defendants committed their alleged crimes between 2012 and 2016 in Matrouh, Cairo and Alexandria governorates. The defendants were also charged with participating in the beheading of 21 Egyptians in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte claimed by ISIS in February 2015. The defendants were locked away Please don't kill me! in Hamam City in Matrouh governorate in 2015 and accused of conducting attacks on a cop shoppe and vital establishments in the city. In November 2016, the case was referred to court, after the State Security Prosecution revealed the defendants were also involved in attacks on Christians in their governorate, as well as hiding and training seven German citizens who were planning to join ISIS in Libya.
In May, Egypt again struck what it said were jihadist targets in Libya after IS claimed a massacre of Coptic Christians on their way to a monastery south of Cairo. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said military reverses for IS in war-torn Syria were driving its fighters to try to relocate to Libya and the Sinai Peninsula of eastern Egypt. Posted by: Fred 2017-11-26 |
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