Egypt sentences 20 to death over killings of 13 police officers

2 July 2017, 4:41 pm

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An Egyptian court sentences 20 people to death over the killing of 13 policemen following the army’s 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, according to judicial officials.

The court also hands 114 people sentences ranging from 15 years to life (25 years) and orders a juvenile jailed for 10 years, they say.

A further 21 defendants are acquitted.

On August 14, 2013, a month after the army overthrew Morsi, security forces forcibly dispersed two pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo in an operation that killed more than 700 people. Hours later, a furious crowd attacked a police station in the Cairo suburb of Kerdassa, where 13 policemen were killed.

— AFP