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Egypt court sentences 5 to death on terror charges

An Egyptian court on Saturday convicted and sentenced five people to death on charges of forming a terrorist group and attacking a church, killing one policeman, the country's state news agency reported.

 

News agency MENA said the court sentenced two others to life in prison in the same case.

 

Prosecutors had charged the defendants with forming a terrorist group that targets Christians and security forces starting last October.

 

Three of the defendants were tried in absentia, meaning that there will be an automatic retrial if they are arrested or hand themselves in.

 


פרסום ראשון: 09.20.14, 20:46