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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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Egyptians carry the coffin of a Shiite man, who was killed last night along with three others by a mob, during a funeral in El-Sayeda Nafisa Mosque in Cairo on June 24, 2013. AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA

Eight arrested in Egypt on Shi’ite murder charges

by Mohamed Abdu Hassanein | Jun 26, 2013 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq AL-Awsat—Egyptian authorities have arrested eight people in connection with the murder of four Shi’ite men in the Abu-Muslim village in Giza governorate on Sunday. An unidentified security source said authorities in Giza arrested eight people...

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19 killed in Egypt train crash

19 killed in Egypt train crash

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 15, 2013 | Middle East

CAIRO (AP) — The accident comes less than two weeks after a new transportation minister was appointed to overhaul the rail system, and just two months after a deadly collision between a train and school bus. The official MENA news agency quoted Health Ministry...