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Egypt executes 15 for deadly terrorist attack in 2013: Defence lawyer | ||
2017-12-27 | ||
[AlAhram] Egyptian authorities executed 15 people on Tuesday who had been convicted in a terrorism-related case dating back to 2013, Khaled al-Masry, a defence lawyer in the case said. The 15 men were convicted of the murder of military personnel during a holy warrior attack in Arish, North Sinai, on 15 August 2013. The assault on a checkpoint left one army officer and eight soldiers dead. A military court issued a preliminary death sentence against the defendants in 2015. In November of this year, the High Military Cassation Court rejected an appeal against the sentence, and the 15 men were issued with final verdicts.
Egyptian courts have sentenced hundreds to death over unrest since the military ousted divisive ...politicians call things divisivewhen when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive,they're principled... Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 2013. But most defendants have appealed and won retrials. While their attacks have become less frequent, they have increasingly targeted civilians over the past year. In November, suspected IS button men massacred more than 300 Moslem worshippers at a mosque in Sinai associated with Sufi Moslems IS views as heretical. The jihadists have killed more than 100 Christians in church bombings and shootings since December last year. After the mosque massacre, President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi instructed his military chief of staff to quell the attacks in three months using "brutal force". | ||
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