An Egyptian court on Monday upheld death sentences for 20 extremists convicted of killing 13 policemen during violent unrest after the military overthrow of president Mohammad Mursi in 2013. “The verdict is final and cannot be appealed,” a judicial official said. On August 14, 2013, a month after Mursi was ...
A Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Safwat Hegazy, Mohammad el Beltagy, Essam el-Erian, Abdel Rahman al-Barr, Amr Zaki, Tarek el-Zomor, Assem Abdel Maged, and 68 others in the case known as “Rabaa sit-in Dispersal” to death on Saturday. The court also sentenced former Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group supreme guide, Mohamed Badie, ...
