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| Egypt Sentences 10 to Death for Killing Judge's Guard |
| 2015-07-10 |
| [ALMANAR.LB] An Egyptian court Thursday sentenced to death 10 men for killing a security guard for one of the judges hearing a case against ousted president Mohammad Mursi, an official said. Sergent Abdallah Metwally was part of a team of coppers guarding the home of judge Hussein Kandil, when he was bumped off in February 2014 in the city of Mansoura north of Cairo. At the time, Kandil was the presiding judge in Mursi's trial for escaping from jail during the 2011 uprising that ousted longtime president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... In May, Mursi and more than 100 co-defendants were sentenced to death in that trial for plotting jailbreaks and attacks on police. The 10 men sentenced to death on Thursday were among 24 tried in a court in Mansoura in connection with Metwally's murder, the official said. Verdicts against the 14 others will be announced in September. In line with Egyptian law, the death sentences were referred to the mufti, the government's official interpreter of Islamic law, and the court will deliver its final ruling on September 7. |
| Posted by:Fred |