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| Egypt's Court of Cassation upholds death sentence for 6 people in 2013 Minya police station storming case | |
| 2018-04-29 | |
The court also uphold jail sentences for 59 people, acquitting 47 others in the 2013 case, which included various acts of violence, including murder, as well as setting Matay Police Station on fire. The sentences are final and cannot be appealed. In August 2017, Minya Criminal Court handed down 12 death sentences and 119 life terms for crimes relating to the storming of the cop shoppe. The deputy chief of the cop shoppe was killed in the violence. The defendants in the Minya case were initially charged with murder, attempted murder, rioting, illegal assembly, disturbing the public peace, and damaging public and private property. The incident followed the forced dispersal of mass sit-ins in Cairo's Rabaa El-Adawiya and El-Nahda squares in August 2013 following the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi amid mass protests against Moslem Brüderbund rule. Following the dispersal, angry rioters stormed cop shoppes and burned a number of churches in various locations across Egypt. | |
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