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| Egypt upholds death sentence against 4 over plotting attacks | ||
| 2018-04-16 | ||
| [IsraelTimes] Egypt’s highest appeals court upholds death sentences for four people for allegedly forming a terrorist cell to plot attacks on security forces and other institutions. The court of cassation on Sunday also rejects an appeal by 14 other defendants against sentences of 15 years imprisonment in February over similar charges including joining an outlawed group, a reference to the Moslem Brüderbund. The verdict is final.
Egypt has cracked down on suspected Islamists since the military ousted president Mohammed Morsi of the Brotherhood in 2013. Since then, hundreds of Islamists, including Brotherhood members, have been sentenced to death. The authorities have carried out dozens of executions.
The defendants were referred to trial in November 2015 on charges of forming and operating a terrorist cell with the aim of undermining the constitution, targeting public and private property, threatening law enforcement officers, as well as a failed liquidation attempt on a judge in March 2015. The defendants were also accused of orchestrating and carrying out a number of terrorist attacks in Giza governorate. | ||
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