MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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In Egypt, Police Officer Is Sentenced to Death
By artappraiser on Sun, 05/22/2011 - 11:26pm |By David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, May 22/23, 2011
CAIRO — A Cairo court sentenced a rank-and-file police officer to death after trying him in absentia for the killings of unarmed protesters during the Egyptian revolution, the harshest sentence given to date as the military-led interim government grapples with calls for retribution against members of the former government.
The sentence, which Interior Ministry officials said was given to an officer named Mohamed Ibrahim Abdel Monem, is not final and reflects in part his failure to appear at trial....
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/world/middleeast/23egypt.html
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