[AlAhram] Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld on Monday prison sentences for those convicted of committing various criminal offenses during the al-Fath Mosque festivities in Cairo in August of 2013.The defendants were charged by the prosecution of murder, attempted murder, desecrating and vandalising the mosque, endangering the public, destruction of public property, obstructing traffic, and possession of firearms and ammunition on 16 and 17 August 2013 at al-Fath Mosque in central Cairo in the aftermath of the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
In September 2017, a Cairo criminal court sentenced 22 of the defendants in the case to life in prison.
The court also sentenced 21 others to life in prison in absentia.
A life sentence carries a term of 25 years in jail per Egyptian law.
That doesn't make a lot of sense. If you're twenty when you're sentenced, that means they let you out when you're forty five. I was still alive when I was forty five. I can prove it!
The court had also sentenced 17 people to 15 years imprisonment, 54 others to 10 years, 13 in absentia to 10 years, 88 in absentia to 10 years, 216 to five years, and exonerated 25 others.
Those convicted appealed these verdicts.
Today's Court of Cassation verdicts are final and cannot be appealed.
Egypt's Court of Cassation commutes death penalty, upholds jail terms in 2013 storming of Kerdasa police station
[AlAhram] Egypt’s Court of Cassation has commuted a death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...against a defendant convicted in the case of the storming of the Kerdasa
| ...known as a stronghold of Muslim Brotherhood supporters... |
The court commuted the death sentence to life in prison following an appeal filed by the defendant.
The court also rejected appeals by three defendants sentenced to life in prison and seven others sentenced to 15 years in the same case.
The prosecution had charged the defendands with premeditated murder, attempted murder, possession of fire arms and ammunition, and attacks on police officers.
Monday’s Court of Cassation verdict comes more than a year after the defendants were handed jail terms by a Giza criminal court in a retrial in May 2018.