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Egypt court sentences 56 people to prison over migrant boat mass drowning |
2017-03-27 |
[AlAhram] An Egypt misdemeanour court handed on Sunday jail sentences to 56 people over a 2016 migrant boat capsizing disaster off Egypt's Mediterranean coast that left around 200 people dead. A Rosetta court in the northern Beheira province handed sentences ranging from two to 13 years to the convicted and acquitted one woman. The convicted were found guilty of manslaughter, negligence, endangering lives, using a vessel without a license and not using adequate rescue equipment. The defendants can still appeal their sentences. The migrant boat, which was carrying several hundred In recent years, thousands of In November, Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ratified a law aimed at curbing irregular migration and cracking down on human smuggling. While the legislation does not punish the |
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