[AlAhram] A criminal court in Egypt's Giza has sentenced 13 members of the terrorist group Ajnad Misr to death after the country's top Moslem legal authority consented to the punishment, following their conviction for attacking security forces.
The court issued preliminary death sentences against the defendants in October and referred them the grand mufti, whose opinion is legally required in death penalty
 cases but is not binding.
The court on Thursday issued a final verdict after the mufti endorsed the sentencing recommendation, which can still be appealed within 60 days.
Ajnad Misr, or Soldiers of Egypt, emerged in early 2014,
| ... after breaking off from Ansar Bayt al Maqdis, which was then still linked to Al Qaeda. Possibly they allied with the Muslim Brotherhood after the Egyptian army evicted the MB from the government, but at any rate they ranked #12 on the UAE terror blacklist. They mostly blew up Cairo policemen with IEDs they made themselves... |
claiming responsibility for a number of attacks on security forces mainly in the Egyptian capital. The group was designated a terrorist organization by the Egyptian government in the same year.
Its leader was killed by security forces in 2015,
| ... that would be Hammam Mohammed Attia the bomb maker, who died in his beloved Giza at the age of 33. At the time of his death he was in possession of an automatic firearm, a pistol, four bombs including one with a magnet so that it could be attached to a car, 18 incomplete bombs, materials used to make bombs and over EGP 76,000... |
and many of its members are in jail.
The defendants were convicted between 2013 and mid-2015 of charges including murder of security forces, attempted murder, joining an outlawed group, and possessing firearms.
Seventeen others of a total of 44 defendants in the same case have been sentenced to life imprisonment, while five were acquitted. The rest received between 5-15 years in jail. 
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