by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 22, 2017 | Middle East
Twenty-eight people have been sentenced to death on Saturday in Egypt for the murder of the country’s top prosecutor Hisham Barakat in 2015. Barakat was killed in a car bomb attack on his convoy in Cairo, an operation which Egypt blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood and...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 17, 2017 | Middle East
A Cairo criminal court on Saturday referred a death penalty recommendation for 31 people convicted of involvement in the 2015 assassination of Egypt’s top prosecutor to the Grand Mufti for a non-binding legally-required opinion. The court set a verdict session...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 7, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East
The Egyptian Interior Minister Major-General Magdy Abdul Ghaffar has accused the Muslim Brotherhood of planning and carrying out the assassination of the former Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat last year. The minister added that “the Brotherhood cell which included...
