Egypt courts sentence 31 people to death in two separate cases
SANAA July 14 (YPA)- Two Egyptian courts on Thursday sentenced 31 people to death in two separate cases, one involving the killing of a policeman and a security guard in 2015 and the other related to an attempt to escape from a prison in 2016, the official MENA news agency reported.
El-Zagazig, the local criminal court sentenced 18 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death over the murders of the policeman and guard, MENA said.
In the same context, Ismailiyah, the local criminal court sentenced 13 men to death over an attempt to escape from a prison in October 2016, according to local media reports.
According to Al-Ahram newspaper, six of the convicted men, who were accused by court officials of being hardline Islamists, were in custody while seven were tried in absentia.
Egypt is waging a crackdown on suspected Islamic militants(Muslim Brotherhood ) and hundreds of them, have been sentenced to death since Morsi was overthrown by current Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
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