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Cairo court sentences 28 to death for top prosecutor's assassination | |
2017-07-23 | |
The court also sentenced 15 others to life in prison and sentenced eight individuals to 15 years in prison. According to Egypt’s penal code, a life in prison is twenty-five years. In June, the court initially sentenced 31 to death for Barakat’s liquidation and referred the decision to the country’s top holy man for his non-binding consultative opinion, as per the country’s penal code. The verdict can still be appealed in front of the appeals court. In June 2015, Barakat was killed in a Cairo kaboom that struck his convoy in the upscale eastern Cairo district of Heliopolis. Sixty-seven people were charged in connection with the liquidation, with the general prosecution accusing defendants ‐ who it says are members of the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund group ‐ of conspiring with members of Gazoo’s Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, to kill the top prosecutor. A holy warrior group calling itself the "Popular Resistance" grabbed credit for the bombing. A court in February 2017 designated the group a terrorist organization. | |
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