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Death reduced to life sentence for six defendants in 2016 Khosous attack

2019-10-27

[AlAhram] Egypt’s Cassation Court ruled on Saturday to mitigate the death sentence

...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
into life imprisonment against six defendants in the case of the deadly attack on a security checkpoint in Khosous.

The attack on a security checkpoint in Khosous in 2016 left one policeman dead and others injured.

The Cassation Court also accepted the appeal of the General Prosecution to extend the punishment of the defendant Omar Khalil to maximum imprisonment of 15 years instead of three years, and upheld the prison sentences of the rest of the defendants.

Investigations revealed that in 2016 one of the defendants established and led a terrorist group with the aim of disrupting the provisions of law and constitution and preventing state authorities from carrying out their duties.

According to investigations, the group called for excommunicating the ruler, forcibly changing the regime and attacking the police and Armed Forces. It also trained other defendants on using firearms to assassinate coppers.

A Cairo criminal court had previously sentenced the six defendants to death and two others to life in prison in August 2018 over the attack.

The criminal court found the defendants guilty of orchestrating terrorist attacks against police and army personnel, recruiting others to join a terrorist organization, possession of illegal firearms and financing a terrorist organization.

We have nothing in the archives about the original incident, but here is Al Ahram’s report of 4 April 2016:

Gunmen shot dead a low-ranking police officer and injured an officer and a police conscript in an attack on a checkpoint on the outskirts of Cairo on Monday morning, an interior ministry source told state agency MENA.

An exchange of fire took place between the police and the unknown assailants at Al-Khosous checkpoint on the Cairo ring-road in Qalioubiya governorate, on the northern outskirts of Greater Cairo.

The injured police officer and conscript were transferred to hospital.

The assailants are still at large and security forces are searching for them, the source said.

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