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| Four people sentenced to death over 2013 police station attack in Upper Egypt |
| 2021-09-15 |
The article does not say that these are final sentences after all appeals and reviews have been exhausted, so I assume this is yet another interim step in the very thorough Hell that is the Egyptian court system. [AlAhram] A Minya Criminal court has sentenced four people to death by hanging and 22 others to life in prison for raiding and torching a cop shoppe, which resulted in the death of two coppers, in August 2013 in Samalut, Minya.The criminal court has also sentenced 20 defendants to 15 years in prison and 15 others to 10 years. It also acquitted one defendant in the case. Ten defendants were dismissed from the trial as they were granted a presidential pardon in June 2018. The case dates back to August 2013, when a wave of violence was perpetrated by supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi across the country. The violence, which broke out after police dispersed two large pro-Morsi sit-ins in Cairo and Giza, involved attacks on cop shoppes and churches that left 686 dead, including 64 members of the police, according to Egypt’s National Council of Human Rights. All the defendants in the case have also been ordered to pay over EGP 22 million as compensation for the buildings that were destroyed. Related: Minya: 2021-06-11 Egypt's Court of Cassation upholds life sentences for defendants who bombed transmission towers in 2014 Minya: 2021-03-31 Cairo appeal court drops charges against 20 NGOs in 2011 'foreign funding case' Minya: 2020-12-19 Egypt court acquits men who attacked elderly Christian woman |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Can we do this in Seattle and Portland? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-09-15 16:19 |