Egypt court sentences 31 people to death penalty over top prosecutor’s murder

YemenExtra

M.A.

Cairo’s criminal court has submitted for consideration by the Grand Mufti the documents sentencing 31 persons to capital punishment over the murder of the country’s Prosecutor-General Hisham Barakat two years ago, local TV channels reported.

Under Egypt’s laws, before the death penalty is declared it should be approved by the Mufti.

The final verdict will be announced on July 22. The decisions on 36 other defendants will be also released.

All of them are allegedly plotting and staging the killing of the country’s top prosecutor and illegal storage of firearms, ammunition and explosives.

Hisham Barakat was killed in 2015 summer when his car was blown up.