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December 3, 2014

Egyptian Court Sentences Dozens to Death in Mass Trial 
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An Egyptian court has sentenced nearly 200 people to die in a mass trial
over the deaths of police officers in an attack last year. Defense
attorneys say the accused were excluded from the courtroom and that no
effort was made to prove anyone's individual guilt. It is the third such
mass sentencing of alleged Muslim Brotherhood supporters in less than a
year, and comes just days after former dictator Hosni Mubarak was
cleared of all charges in the deaths of hundreds of unarmed protesters
rising up against his regime in 2011.

 

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