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Egypt court sentences militant leader Ashmawy to death for police killings | |||
2020-03-03 | |||
[AlAhram] The court had already referred the preliminary death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s to the grand mufti A Cairo criminal court has sentenced terrorist leader Hisham Ashmawy
The court convicted the 37 defendants of carrying out 54 liquidations of police and citizens, most notably coppers Mohammed Mabrouk, Mohammed Abu Shakra and Mohammed Said. The defendants were also convicted of bombing three security directorates, including Cairo Security Directorate in 2014, and vandalising 25 public and private institutions, including police headquarters, churches and mosques. The court also gave life sentences to 61 defendants, sentencing 21 to ten years in prison and 15 others to 15 years. The sentences comes a few weeks after the same court referred the preliminary death sentences to the grand mufti for his recommendation, which is a necessary, albeit non-binding, procedure before issuing a death sentence in the Egyptian penal code. The defendants can still challenge the sentences at Egypt's Court of Cassation.
One of the most-wanted Egyptian krazed killers, he was apprehended in Libya in October 2018 and handed over to Egypt by forces loyal to Libya’s Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... in May 2019. In November 2019, an Egyptian military court sentenced Ashmawy to death for his involvement in a number of terrorist attacks, most notably a 2014 ambush that killed 22 Egyptian military border guards near Libya. Ashmawy led the Sinai-based Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the military has said. He broke away from the group after they swore allegiance to the Islamist State krazed killer group in late 2014.
The court also sentenced 61 defendants to life in prison, and 85 others got sentences ranging from 15 to 5 years in prison. Monday’s verdict can be appealed before a higher court. [PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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