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| Egypt Confirms Death Sentences against 22 Morsi Backers |
| 2015-04-21 |
| [AnNahar] An Egyptian court confirmed death sentences against 22 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi on Monday over an attack on a cop shoppe in which one officer was killed. The judgment comes ahead of an expected verdict on Tuesday against Morsi himself on charges of inciting the killing of protesters in December 2012 when he was president. The attack in the town of Kerdasa on the outskirts of Cairo on July 3, 2013 came on the same day that then army chief and now President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi announced he was overthrowing Morsi. Since his ouster, the authorities have cracked down hard on Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund movement with at least 1,400 of his supporters killed. Hundreds more have been sentenced to death and thousands tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... , often in speedy mass trials that have been criticised by human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... groups. Monday's court ruling confirmed the death sentences it handed down against the 22 defendants in March after they had received the statutory approval of the country's highest Moslem religious authority, the mufti. Fourteen of the 22 defendants are in jug, while eight are on the run, a court official said. The defendants were convicted of "illegal assembly, vandalism, murder and attempted murder". Morsi himself is facing five separate trials on charges that carry the death penalty. The verdict in the first of them is expected on Tuesday. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 See #1. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-04-21 22:28 |
| #3 No. He'll be luck to live five years in an Egyptian prison. |
| Posted by: Unonter Bluetooth3165 2015-04-21 12:17 |
| #2 I wonder if that sentence works like it would in the US = out in 7 yrs. |
| Posted by: Raj 2015-04-21 10:35 |
| #1 Morsi got 20 yrs |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-04-21 09:22 |