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Africa North

Cairo court sentences 28 to death for top prosecutor's assassination

2017-07-23

Filed under P.2: WoT Background because in Egypt the sentence is only an intermediate step, with guaranteed review up to the Supreme Court followed by review by the mufti, Egypt's official interpreter of Islamic law, whose opinion is legally required but not binding. After all that, the final sentence is announced and executed... although sometimes some miscreants are subsequently pardoned during Ramadan or another time when mercy is particularly meritorious.

[AlAhram] South Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Saturday 28 to death for the 2015 liquidation of the country's top prosecutor, Hisham Barakat.

The court also sentenced 15 others to life in prison and sentenced eight individuals to 15 years in prison.

According to Egypt’s penal code, a life in prison is twenty-five years.

In June, the court initially sentenced 31 to death for Barakat’s liquidation and referred the decision to the country’s top holy man for his non-binding consultative opinion, as per the country’s penal code.

The verdict can still be appealed in front of the appeals court.

In June 2015, Barakat was killed in a Cairo kaboom that struck his convoy in the upscale eastern Cairo district of Heliopolis.

Sixty-seven people were charged in connection with the liquidation, with the general prosecution accusing defendants ‐ who it says are members of the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund group ‐ of conspiring with members of Gazoo’s Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, to kill the top prosecutor.

A holy warrior group calling itself the "Popular Resistance" grabbed credit for the bombing. A court in February 2017 designated the group a terrorist organization.

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