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Home Front: WoT

Washington still soft to Muslim Brotherhood

2022-12-04

[OneIndia] The US has added four top Islamic turbans operating in Afghanistan and Pakistain to its list of 'global terrorists' but is that enough in current war on Islamist terror?

In a significant development, the United States State department has now added four top Islamic turbans operating in Afghanistan and Pakistain to its list of 'global terrorists'.

Observers say the US announcement follows the decision of the Tehrik-e-Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
Pakistain (TTP) to end its ceasefire with the government in Islamabad and resume targeting the security forces across the country. As such this may help, partially at least, Islamabad in combating a resurgence of TTP-generated violence in Pakistain. The bad boy leaders, designed as "global terrorists" belong to the Pak Taliban and an al-Qaeda branch in South Asia. Both bad boy groups operate from Afghanistan. They have hideouts in Pakistain's mountainous north-west and elsewhere as well.

The State Department's decision, however, offers little hope in terms of fighting the current global war on Islamist terror. One of the root causes of Islamist terror across the world is the Moslem Brüderbund. It has been a key ideological source of terror against the cherished values of modern civilization. By its very nature, it poses a threat to the United States and its values. al-Qaeda and most of the other leading terrorist groups have been connected with it. But the United States is still soft to the Moslem Brüderbund.

Moslem Brüderbund propagandist Bahgat Saber is based in New York City. He calls for jihad both in the United States and abroad. He often streams live videos from Times Square. He incites terrorism against Egypt, Saudi Arabia

...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
and the United Arab Emirates. In a March 2020 video, he urged his followers to engage in bio-terrorism in the US and Egypt. In another video the same year, he pressed them to search the internet for manuals on how to manufacture explosives.

Ahmed Andel Basit Mohammed, one of Saber's associates in New York, was sentenced to death in Egypt for his role in deadly terrorist attacks there. Basit has admitted his involvement in jihadist riots in Cairo in 2013 that led to the deaths of 210 people and the wounding of 296 others.

Akram Kassab, New York City-based Moslem Brüderbund theologian and member of the Moslem Brüderbund's International Union of Moslem Scholars, delivers sermons at the Moslem American Society Youth Center in Brooklyn. In a fatwa in May 2015, he said that it was a "religious duty, a necessity, and revolutionary dream" to "get rid" of judges and officials who support the Egyptian government. After Kassab's fatwa, Egypt's leading prosecutor Hisham Barakat was assassinated .

Given the lack of appropriate response by its intelligence and security agencies to the activities of such notorious Moslem Brüderbund elements in the very land of the United States, it is immensely clear that Washington is hardly serious about combating Islamist terror.

Jagdish N. Singh is a senior journalist based in New Delhi. He is also Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, New York

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Africa North

Cairo sentences 25 to 15 years in prison, acquits 12 in Rabaa dispersal case

2022-05-14

[AlAhram] A Cairo criminal court has sentenced 25 people to 15 years in prison, one juvenile to five years, and acquitted 12 others in a retrial of the case known in media as “the dispersal of the Rabaa sit-in case.”

These sentences are only preliminary, leading to years more of retrials before anything is finalized. Hence the Page 2: WoT Background designation,

The defendants were charged with several crimes that took place in August 2013, including the premeditated murder of civilians as well as policemen who were tasked with dispersing a sit-in in Cairo’s Rabaa square, which has been renamed Hisham Barakat Square.

The defendants were also charged with attempted murder, blocking roads, destroying public property, and possessing firearms and Molotov cocktails.

The case, which involves more than 700 defendants including fugitives, dates back to the dispersal of the Rabaa sit-in that was held by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in August 2013.

The dispersal left hundreds dead and thousands arrested on a variety of charges. It also unleashed days of nationwide street clashes and attacks on security installations.

In June last year, Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld the death penalty for 12 people in the case, Mohamed El-Beltagy, Safwat Hegazy, and Abdel-Rahman El-Bar, three key leading members of the terrorist-designated Muslim Brotherhood.

The country's top appeals court also commuted in June the death penalty for 31 others in the same case to life imprisonment, but upheld prison sentences ranging from five to 25 years for 277 others.

The cassation court also upheld a 10-year prison sentence against Osama, the son of ousted President Morsi.

Criminal proceedings against another key Brotherhood figure, Essam El-Erian, were abated after his death in custody in August 2020. El-Erian had received a final death penalty in the case.

In 2018, a Cairo Criminal Court issued preliminary death sentences for 75 members of the Brotherhood in a mass trial in the case. Several defendants, including Mohamed Badie, the Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide, were handed life imprisonment sentences in the case.

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Africa North

Cairo court sentences 10 to death over terrorism charges; including Yehia Mousa

2022-01-31

[AlAhram] A Cairo court sentenced on Sunday 10 defendants to death on charges of "forming gangs to carry out hostile attacks in Cairo and Giza against police personnel and vandalise public properties and facilities, including power towers."

The court is seeking the opinion of Egypt’s Grand Mufti on the preliminary verdicts.

The Public Prosecution’s investigation said the defendants between the period of 14 August 2013 and 2 February 2015 led a group that was founded in violation of the law; with the purpose of disrupting the constitution and the state’s laws, hindering the functioning of the state’s institutions, assaulting the personal freedom of citizens, and harming national unity and social peace.

The defendants include Yehia Mousa, the former health ministry spokesperson, who is accused alongside others by Egyptian authorities of orchestrating the liquidation of former Egyptian prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat in 2015.

Mousa left for ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
on the heels of the ouster of late Moslem Brüderbund president Mohammed Morsi in 2013, with media reports stating recently that ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish authorities have prevented him from departing its lands, as Ankara seeks to restore ties with Cairo after years of deterioration.

The religious opinion of the mufti is non-binding but is a necessary procedure before issuing a death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
in Egypt, according to the country’s code of criminal procedure.

The court is set to issue its final verdict against the defendants on 19 June.

The Times of Israel adds:

Of the 10 men, nine were in jug while one was sentenced in absentia, the source said.

They were accused of multiple incidents of violence against police in 2015 — a period that saw a spike in attacks targeting security forces.

Egypt outlawed the Islamist Moslem Brüderbund group in 2013 and designated it a terrorist organization, following the military ouster of former president Mohammed Morsi.

General-turned-president Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, who led Morsi’s ouster, has since led a crackdown on the group, jailing thousands including its top leader as well as its rank and file.

Morsi died in jug in June 2019, after falling ill during a court hearing.

Cairo has handed down death sentence

s or long jail terms after mass trials that have drawn condemnation from the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
Capital punishment for civilian convicts in Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, is carried out by hanging.

Egypt carried out the third-highest number of known executions in the world last year, after China and Iran, according to ~~Amnesia~~ Amnesty International.

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Africa North

Acting Muslim Brotherhood leader Mahmoud Ezzat sentenced to life in prison for espionage

2021-12-20

The hellish process continues.

[AlAhram] A Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Mahmoud Ezzat — the acting supreme guide of the Moslem Brüderbund — in a retrial on Sunday to life in prison for collaborating with the Paleostinian group Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", and other foreign organizations and disclosing information pertaining to Egypt’s national security.

According to the prosecution’s investigation on the case that dates back to 2013, Ezzat, along with others, is charged with committing acts that undermine the independence, unity, and territorial integrity of the country.

A life sentence in Egypt carries 25 years in jail.

The official charges levelled against the defendants are communicating with foreign organizations with the aim of committing terrorist acts inside the country and financing terrorism to achieve the purposes of the international organization formally known as the Moslem Brüderbund.

Investigations showed that the defendants cooperated with elements affiliated with a terrorist group in Sinai and qualified others to spread rumors to influence public opinion.

Ezzat, who was arrested in 2020, was first handed a death sentence

...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
in absentia in 2015.

Under Egyptian law, in absentia convictions must be re-tried once the defendant is apprehended.

Today’s ruling against Ezzat, who is currently standing trial in other cases, can be appealed.

The Times of Israel adds:

Ezzat was arrested in August 2020 in Cairo, after being on the run for several years.

In April 2021, he was sentenced to life imprisonment on terrorism charges in a separate case.

In 2015, Ezzat was sentenced in absentia to death, as well as given life imprisonment, after being found guilty of having supervised the killing of soldiers and government officials.

He was accused of involvement in the murder of the state prosecutor Hisham Barakat, who died in hospital after a boom-mobile tore through his convoy in Cairo in 2015.

The Brotherhood was blacklisted in Egypt in 2013 and deemed a terrorist group, months after the army overthrew Morsi who hailed from the movement.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi was defense minister when Morsi was removed from power.

Founded in 1928, the Brotherhood later established itself as the main Islamist opposition movement in Egypt, and spread regionally with ardent offshoots from Tunisia to ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
Ezzat is reported to have joined the Brotherhood in the 1960s, and spent time in jail under Egypt’s late presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...

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The Grand Turk

Turkey prevents two Muslim Brotherhood members from departure: Sources to Al-Arabiya

2021-09-01

[AlAhram] Both members are accused by the Egyptian authorities of criminal masterminding the liquidation of former Egyptian prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat in 2015.

~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
has prevented two Moslem Brüderbund members from departing its lands, sources told the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya and al-Hadath channels on Tuesday.

The pair, Yehia Mousa and Alaa al-Samahi, is accused by Egyptian authorities of criminal masterminding the liquidation of former Egyptian prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat in 2015.

Mousa and al-Samahi are reportedly in Turkey since the dispersal of the terrorist-designated Moslem Brüderbund sit-ins in Cairo in August 2013. The 45-day-long sit-ins were organised in Rabaa and al-Nahda squares after the ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 30 June 2013.

The ban on departure imposed by the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish authorities on Mousa and al-Samahi will be in place until further notice, the sources added.

The sources also told both Saudi channels that a number of Brotherhood offices and homes in Turkey have been closed and evacuated over the past two weeks upon an order from the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish authorities.

Egypt and Turkey are preparing for a second round of what they called "exploratory talks" on 7-8 September in Ankara to address bilateral relations between the two countries and a number of regional issues.

Egypt’s relations with Turkey have been strained since the ouster of Morsi, who was backed by the government of then prime minister His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First

His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First

...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
The exploratory talks come as Turkey attempts to end its differences — that have been impacting its economy — with regional powers over several crises in the region.

The second round of talks comes four months after Egyptian and ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish diplomatic officials concluded two days of political consultations in Cairo on normalizing relations, a round that was described by both sides as "frank and in-depth."

The round addressed bilateral issues as well as a number of regional issues, in particular the situation in Syria and Iraq, and the need to achieve peace and security in the Eastern Mediterranean region.

Ankara, ahead of the first exploratory talks, reportedly requested the Moslem Brüderbund-affiliated channels based in Istanbul to dim their criticism of Egypt's government, as Turkey seeks to repair ties with Cairo. Later, the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish authorities prevented Egyptian Moslem Brüderbund hosts from appearing on two of these channels.

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Africa North

Mahmoud Ezzat Muslim Brotherhood's leader in Egypt is arrested.

2020-08-29

[Twitter-Reuters]

This week's biggest news from Islamist world is most definitely the arrest of Muslim Brotherhood's leader in Egypt. I hope Egyptian govt leads this arrest to its logical conclusion. https://t.co/g2O5MEXq8g
— FJ (@Natsecjeff) August 28, 2020

Egypt arrests acting Supreme Guide of terrorist-designated Brotherhood Mahmoud Ezzat at Cairo hideout

[AlAhram] Ezzat was named the group’s acting leader in August 2013 and has been in hiding ever since; he is also the head of the Brotherhood's international organization.

Egyptian authorities have arrested Mahmoud Ezzat,

... seen as a hardliner within the Muslim Brotherhood...

the acting supreme guide of the terrorist-designated Moslem Brüderbund, at a hideout in eastern Cairo, in the most significant Brotherhood arrest in recent years.

In a statement on Friday, Egypt’s interior ministry said the runaway group leader, who is also the head of the Brotherhood's International Organization, was arrested following intelligence that he was hiding at a flat in New Cairo’s Fifth Settlement neighbourhood.

They said Ezzat had used the apartment as his latest hideout, "despite rumours promoted by the Brotherhood’s leaders about him being abroad, to mislead authorities."

The leader was arrested after a raid carried out per a warrant by the Supreme State Security Prosecution, the statement said, adding that several laptops and mobile phones with open-source software to secure communication with leaders and members of the banned group inside the country and abroad were found.

According to the statement, Ezzat was in charge of forming the Brotherhood’s "armed wing" and the supervisor of major terrorist operations since 30 June 2013 until his arrest.

"Operations supervised by Ezzat include the liquidation of former general prosecutor Hisham Barakat in 2015, policeman Wael Tahoun in 2015, top-ranked army officer Adel Ragei in 2016, and the attempted liquidation of the general prosecutor’s former aide Zakaria Abdel-Azim in 2016," the statement said.

It also charged him with supervising a deadly car blast outside the capital’s main cancer hospital in August 2019 which killed 20 people.

Ezzat was also responsible for "cyber-attacks which manage [spreading] rumours and fake news to stir confusion and divide public opinion," the statement said, adding that he managed the "movement of the group’s funds and funds to activities through the group’s members abroad from suspicious international organizations."

Ezzat, 76, has been in the Brotherhood ranks since the 1960s and was named a member of the group's Guidance Bureau, or its executive board, in 1981. He has previously been detained for several years for his activism and affiliation with the group.

He was named the group’s acting leader in August 2013, after the arrest of Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie, who received a fourth final life sentence in July on violence-related charges, totalling 100 years.

Ezzat’s whereabouts had previously been unclear since that date.

He has been given several sentences in absentia, including life imprisonment terms and the death penalty

, during mass trials of the Brotherhood’s leading members on charges of espionage with Paleostinian group Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", and other violence-related crimes.

Under Egyptian law, in absentia convictions must be re-tried once the defendant is apprehended.

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Africa North

Egypt court declares militant group 'Hasm' terrorist organisation

2019-08-06

[AlAhram] The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters has designated on Saturday the holy warrior group "Hasm", which grabbed credit for a number of deadly attacks on security forces as well as liquidation attempts on public figures over the past year, as a terrorist group.

The little-known group claimed the liquidation attempt on the deputy prosecutor general in September 2016 as well as the liquidation attempt on leading Islamic holy man Ali Gomaa in August of the same year.

In December 2016, Hasm also grabbed credit for a deadly explosion at a police checkpoint in the Haram district in Giza, which killed 6 coppers and left 4 injured.

In mid-January, the High State Security Prosecution referred 304 people to military trials for alleged membership in Hasm.

Last week, Cairo Court for Urgent Matters also designated a group calling itself the "Popular Resistance" a terrorist organization. The group, which was formed in 2014, first gained widespread attention in June 2015 when it grabbed credit for the murder of the country's chief prosecutor, Hisham Barakat, in Cairo.

Since 2013, the Egyptian government has linked most of the holy warrior groups in the country which announced responsibility for attacks on security forces to the banned Moslem Brüderbund organization.

The government declared the Moslem Brüderbund a terrorist organization in December 2013 as the government blamed the group for a number of deadly attacks on security forces in the aftermath of the ouster of Islamist former president Mohammed Morsi in July of that year.

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Arabia

Kuwait conducts investigation to detect new members of Muslim Brotherhood cell

2019-07-16

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Kuwait has said they are conducting an ongoing investigation in order to detect new members of a Death Eater cell linked to the banned Moslem Brüderbund group, according to a statement on Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).

The statement comes just days after local Kuwaiti al-Rai newspaper revealed that arrested members of the Moslem Brüderbund Death Eater cell in Kuwait were involved in the liquidation of Egypt’s former Public Prosecutor Hisham Barakat in 2015.

The newspaper also said that wanted suspects of the cell who were not captured had fled Kuwait to Doha and ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
The statement on Monday also confirmed that Kuwait has extradited eight members of the cell back to Egypt in accordance with the bilateral agreements between the two countries.

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Arabia

Muslim Brotherhood group in Kuwait were involved in the assassination of Egypt’s former Public Prosecutor Hisham Barakat in 2015

2019-07-14

[TWITTER]

Breaking: Arrested members of a militant cell linked to the banned Muslim Brotherhood group in Kuwait were involved in the assassination of Egypt’s former Public Prosecutor Hisham Barakat in 2015, local Kuwaiti al-Rai newspaper said in a report.https://t.co/UsLCGFeqa4 pic.twitter.com/L5BJkfvKzl
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) July 13, 2019

Breaking: Wanted suspects belonging to a militant cell linked to the Muslim Brotherhood who were not captured in Kuwait had fled to Doha and Turkey.https://t.co/UsLCGFeqa4 pic.twitter.com/66HoAoNcZW
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) July 13, 2019

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Africa North

Terrorist Hisham El-Ashmawy being retried in five cases for supporting, carrying out attacks

2019-06-26

[AlAhram] Egypt said that dangerous terrorist Hesham El-Ashmawy, who was handed over to Egyptian authorities last month, is currently being tried in five cases where he had previously received sentences in absentia, according to informed sources.

El-Ashmawy faces charges of carrying out terrorist operations against the army, police forces and civilians.

According to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, El-Ashmawy is being retried under the criminal procedure law, which stipulates that he must be retried before a military court.

Last May, Egypt secured the transfer of El-Ashmawy from his detention in Libya back to Egypt, with the highly secured transfer operation executed by various Egyptian special forces branches.

El-Ashmawy was captured by the LNA in October 2018 in Libya’s Eastern city of Derna as the forces liberated the city.

El-Ashmawy, who was Egypt’s top wanted terrorist over the past six years, was born in 1978 and graduated in 2000 from the military academy. In 2007, a military court transferred El-Ashmawy to an administrative post before his dismissal from the army in 2011.

He later joined the North Sinai-based Ansar Beit al-Maqdis terrorist group.

Later in Derna he broke away from Ansar Beit al-Maqdis after the group swore allegiance to ISIS, and formed the al-Qaeda affiliated al-Mourabitoun.

El-Ashmawy, also known as Abu Omar El-Mohager (the immigrant), is considered one of the most dangerous bully boyz linked to attacks in Egypt.

El-Ashmawy is believed to have been involved in an liquidation attempt on former Egyptian Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim, the murder of top prosecutor Hisham Barakat, as well as the attack on Egyptian border guards in February 2015, which resulted in the death of 29 Armed Forces personnel.

He is also believed to be behind a deadly attack on Christian pilgrims in Upper Egypt's Minya governorate in May 2017, which killed 29 people.

In January 2015, his group was suspected of staging a multi-pronged attack on the headquarters of the Army Battalion 101 Headquarters in El-Arish in North Sinai, which killed 30 soldiers and officers.

An Egyptian military court sentenced him in absentia, along with 13 other terrorists, to death over the New Valley massacre in Farafra on 19 July 2014, where 22 border guards were killed.

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Africa North

Nine executed in Egypt over assassination of prosecutor-general in 2015

2019-02-21

[AlAhram] Egypt's Prisons Authority executed on Monday nine prisoners convicted of assassinating Egyptian prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat in 2015.

Egypt's court of cassation upheld the death sentence for the prisoners in November 2018, rejecting an appeal against the sentence.

However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
the court did commute the sentence of six other prisoners from death to life in prison. It also sentenced 15 defendants to life in prison, eight defendants to 15 years, and 10 others to 10 years.

The defendants in the case were charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, the possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition, and the possession of explosives devices.

In June 2015, Barakat was killed in a Cairo kaboom that struck his convoy in the upscale eastern Cairo district of Heliopolis.

A holy warrior group calling itself the "Popular Resistance" grabbed credit for the bombing. A court in February 2017 designated the group a terrorist organization.

The Times of Israel adds:

Egypt on Wednesday executed nine suspected Moslem Brüderbund members convicted of involvement in the 2015 liquidation of Egypt’s top prosecutor, security officials said.

Death sentences were also handed down in July 2017 to 13 defendants tried in absentia. They will be eligible for a new trial if they surrender or are captured.

~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
deported one of the 13 last month. Mohammed Abdel-Hafiz is likely to face a new trial over the same accusations.

The Brotherhood denied they dunnit, ISIS in the Sinai/Ansar Bayt al Maqdis claimed they did, but the government has been consistent about who they blame — Popular Resistence appeared full blown, like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, in 2014, claiming Mr. Barakat as their first coup.

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Africa North

Egypt court upholds death sentence for 9 convicted for murder of prosecutor-general Barakat

2018-11-26

Filed under P.2: WoT Background because in Egypt the sentence is only an intermediate step, with guaranteed review up to the Supreme Court followed by review by the mufti, Egypt's official interpreter of Islamic law, whose opinion is legally required but not binding. After all that, the final sentence is announced and executed... although sometimes some miscreants are subsequently pardoned during Ramadan or another time when mercy is particularly meritorious. Separately, although the article doesn’t say so, the murder of Mr. Barakat is credited to the so called “Popular Resistance”, one of several militant fronts of the Muslim Brotherhood formed after Mohammed Morsi was driven out, though Ansar Bayt al Maqdis/ISIS in the Sinai was the first to claim it.

[AlAhram] Egypt's Court of Cassation upheld on Sunday death sentences against nine defendants convicted of involvement in the liquidation of prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat in 2015.

Six other defendants in the case had their sentences commuted from death to life in prison.

The court also reduced the sentences of four other defendants from life in prison to 15 years, and one defendant’s sentence was reduced from life in prison to three years.

The court also reduced one defendant’s sentence from life in prison to one year for the illegal possession of firearms, and he was acquitted of all other charges.

The court also acquitted five defendants that had originally been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

In July 2017, a Cairo criminal court sentenced 28 defendants to death for assassinating prosecutor-general Barakat. The court also sentenced 15 defendants to life in prison sentence, eight defendants to 15 years, and 15 defendants to 10 years.

The defendants were charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, the possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition, and the possession of explosives devices.

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