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18:14, 17-Jun-2017
30 recommended death penalty over Egypt’s top prosecutor's assassination
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Updated at 7:00 p.m. BJT
The Cairo Criminal Court recommended the death penalty for 30 people on Saturday over the assassination of Egypt’s top public prosecutor in 2015, which was the most senior state official killed by militants in recent years.
The court referred the sentence to Egypt’s top religious authority, Grand Mufti, and the final verdict will be announced on June 22.
Sixty-seven other defendants in the same case will remain in custody, reported local press.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (C) and government ministers attended Hisham Barakat's military funeral service on June 30, 2015./VCG Photo
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (C) and government ministers attended Hisham Barakat's military funeral service on June 30, 2015./VCG Photo
Hisham Barakat, who had sent thousands of Islamists to trial since the toppling of former President Mohammed Morsi in 2013, was killed on June 29, 2015 by a car bomb attack on his convoy in Cairo.
A less-known group, "the Giza Popular Resistance," claimed responsibility for the attack.
The judge initially read out 31 names but two of them referred to the same person and he then corrected himself, Reuters reported.
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