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In Wake of Mubarak’s Acquittal, Egyptian Court Issues Mass Death Sentence

Third mass death sentence in less than a year comes amid mounting concerns about state brutality under the U.S.-backed regime of Abdel Fattah Al Sisi

By Muhamed ashraf (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

By Muhamed ashraf (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Published on Wednesday, December 03, 2014 by Common Dreams
By Sarah Lazare, Common Dreams Staff Writer

For the third time in less than a year, an Egyptian court has issued a mass death sentence, adding to mounting concerns about state brutality under the regime of U.S.-backed coup leader Abdel Fattah Al Sisi.

Judge Mohammed Nagi Shehata, head of the Giza Criminal Court, on Tuesday condemned to death 188 alleged members of the Muslim Brotherhood, who are charged with killing 11 police officers during a protest last August in the town of Kardasa.

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