EGYPT: 24 MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER ATTACKING POLICE
September 15, 2021: A Beheira criminal court on 29 July 2021 sentenced 24 Muslim Brotherhood members to death for the killing of police officers in two separate cases, a judicial source said. The court sentenced 16 of the convicts, including 6 in absentia, to death over blasting a police bus in Rashid city, causing the death of three. The eight other convicts, including two in absentia, received a death sentence over assassinating a policeman while leaving his house. Three convicts in the case had the legal case against them cancelled for their death. In 2015, the convicts blew an explosive device near a village in Rashid, where a bus carrying police personnel was passing. The blast killed three policemen and wounded 33 others. (Source: FARS, 30/07/2021)
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