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Africa North
Egypt: 69 Persons Get Life Terms for Torching Church
2015-04-30
[ALMANAR.LB] An Egyptian court Wednesday tossed in the calaboose
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
69 persons for life for torching a church near Cairo in August 2013, as anger flared over a crackdown on supporters of ousted president Mohammad Mursi.

The Coptic church was set on fire and a cop shoppe was attacked when violence erupted in the town of Kerdasa on August 14 that year, after hundreds of Mursi supporters died in a crackdown on two protest camps in the capital the same day.

The court also sentenced two minors to 10 years in jail in the same case. A life term in Egypt amounts to 25 years in jail.

The defendants were found guilty of "setting the church on fire, attempting to murder civilians and possessing illegal weapons," a judicial official said.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Sure, until the jail break when a guard lets them out.
Posted by: Skidmark   2015-04-30 09:27  

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