Monday, March 24, 2014

Hundreds of Egyptians Sentenced to Death in Killing of a Police Officer - NYTimes.com

Hundreds of Egyptians Sentenced to Death in Killing of a Police Officer - NYTimes.com: "A criminal court in the city of Minya sentenced 529 detainees to death on Monday after a single session of their mass trial, convicting them of murder for the killing of a police officer in the rioting last summer after the military ouster of President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Legal experts called the case the largest mass trial or conviction in the history of modern Egypt. It also was a surprising acceleration of the nine-month-old crackdown on Mr. Morsi’s Islamist supporters and liberal dissenters that followed his removal last July."



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