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2020-02-02 Africa North
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Egyptian court sentences terrorist leader Ashmawy, 36 others to death over 54 assassinations
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[AlAhram] The court convicted the 37 defendants of carrying out 54 liquidations against coppers and citizens
A Cairo criminal court handed preliminary death sentence
 ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
s to leading terrorist Hisham Ashmawy
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| ...in our archives as Hesham El-Ashmawy or Hisham el-Ashmawi, he was also known as Abu Omar El-Mohager (the immigrant). El-Ashmawy graduated in 2000 from the Egyptian military academy, then within eleven years earnt himself a dishonourable discharge. He subsequently joined Ansar Bayt Al Maqdis, the local branch of Al Qaeda, for whom he had too much fun applying the training given him by the Egyptian taxpayers. When they became ISIS in the Sinai, he left to form the Al Qaeda linked al-Mourabitoun, which at some point wandered off to Libya where the LNA caught him and sent him back. Egypt convicted him in absentia in 2014, leaving very little for the courts to do now ... |
and 36 others in the case known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, convicting them of executing over 50 liquidation attacks on coppers.
The court referred the preliminary sentences to the grand mufti, which is a necessary, albeit non-binding, procedure before issuing a death sentence, as per the Egyptian penal code.
The court is slayed to issue a verdict on 2 March.
The court convicted the 37 defendants of carrying out 54 liquidations against coppers and citizens, most notably late coppers Mohammed Mabrouk, Mohammed Abu Shakra, Mohammed Said and others.
The defendants were also convicted of bombing three security directorates, including Cairo Security Directorate in 2014, vandalising of 25 public and private institutions, including police headquarters, churches and mosques.
This is the second death sentence handed to Ashmawy in recent months.
In November 2019, an Egyptian military court sentenced Ashmawy to death over involvement in a number of terrorist attacks.
He was convicted in 14 crimes, including a 2014 ambush that killed 22 Egyptian military border guards near Libya and a failed liquidation attempt on a former interior minister in 2013, the army front man said in earlier statements.
Ashmawy, one of the most wanted Egyptian Death Eaters, was apprehended in Libya in October 2018 and handed over to Egypt by forces of Libyan army commander Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
in May.
A former Egyptian special forces officer, Ashmawy had been sentenced to death in absentia before his transfer to Egypt.
Ashmawy led the Sinai-based Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the army said. He broke off after the group swore allegiance to the Islamist State group in late 2014.
The men are among more than 200 defendants accused of carrying out more than 50 militant attacks that included killing high-ranking police officers and bombings that targeted the Egyptian capital’s police headquarters. The charges also include a 2013 assassination attempt on the Egyptian interior minister.
The ruling on the sentencing is set for March 2. The presiding judge may decide independently of the Mufti.
Bayt al-Maqdis swore allegiance to the extremist Islamic State group in November 2014 and is now known as “Welayet Sinai,” or the province of Sinai.
Al-Mourabitoun is the militant group blamed for most of the attacks in Egypt’s remote Western Desert, such as a 2017 ambush that killed nearly 30 Christian pilgrims on their way to a monastery. 
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