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Dressed in white, Mahmoud Salah, left, and Awad Suleiman, right, stand in the dock during their trial for the murder of 28-year-old Khaled Said in June 2010. (AFP Photo)

Egypt: Police officers jailed for murder of Khaled Said

by Mohamed Hassan Shaban | Mar 4, 2014 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced two police officers to 10 years in prison for the murder of Khaled Said, an Egyptian from Alexandria whose brutal death helped spark to the eruption of the revolution in Egypt in 2011. The two police...

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An Egyptian policeman stands guard at the scene of an explosion at a police headquarters building that killed at least a dozen people, wounded more than 100, and left scores buried under the rubble, in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, 70 miles north of Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, December 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahmed Ashraf)

Powerful bomb at Egypt police station kills 12

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 24, 2013 | Middle East

Mansoura, AP—A powerful explosion believed to have been caused by a car bomb ripped through a police headquarters in a Nile Delta city north of Cairo early on Tuesday, killing 12 people and wounding more than 100, while leaving scores buried under the rubble. The...