Egypt Sentences Nearly 200 to

artappraiser — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 01:17:52 +0000

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Egypt Sentences Nearly 200 to Die in Mass Trial Over Killings of Police
By David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, Dec. 2/3, 2014

CAIRO — In the third such mass sentencing in less than a year, an Egyptian court on Tuesday condemned a group of nearly 200 defendants to die after a single mass trial in the killing of a handful of police officers during a riot last year.

A court in Giza, across the Nile from Cairo, issued a death sentence to 188 people accused of being supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood who were charged in the killing of 11 police officers during an attack on a police station in the town of Kardasa in August 2013. A defense lawyer said that there was no effort to prove that any individual defendant personally killed any of the officers; that more than 100 of the defendants were not allowed to have lawyers; and that scores of defense witnesses were excluded from the courtroom.

The death sentence came just days after a Cairo court on Saturday cited a procedural technicality to dismiss charges against the former president, Hosni Mubarak [....]

Egypt army storms pro-Morsi

artappraiser — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:43:25 +0000

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Egypt army storms pro-Morsi town
Clashes between security forces and armed groups in town of Kerdasah leaves one senior policeman dead, state TV reports.
Al Jazeera, 19 Sep 2013

Egyptian security forces have fought gun battles in a town near Cairo after launching an operation targeting "terrorist elements".

A joint police and army operation to take the town of Kerdasah in Giza back from groups loyal to the deposed President Mohamed Morsi began at about 5:30am local time (03:30 GMT) on Thursday.

The ensuing clashes in the area have so far left one senior policeman dead and nine others injured, while at least 65 people were arrested, the Interior Ministry said.

According to Egyptian state TV, one of those arrested on Thursday was Ahmad Uways, the man accused of killing the head of Kerdasah police station on August 14.

It said police forces took control of the area and imposed a curfew.

Security troops launched an operation in the area to arrest people accused of torching police stations and killing about 11 security officers in clashes that erupted following the army's overthrow of Morsi last July.

Security forces had not been allowed in Kerdasah since then, but authorities had previously promised to respond to the deadly attack on the police station [....]

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