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A policeman secures the site of a car bomb attack on the convoy of Egyptian public prosecutor Hisham Barakat near his house at Heliopolis district in Cairo in 2015. (Reuters)

Egypt Sentences 28 to Death for Killing Top Prosecutor in 2015

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...

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Egyptian policemen stand guard at the site of a June 29, 2015 bombing in Cairo that killed Egypt’s top prosecutor Hisham Barakat. (AP/Eman Helal)

Egypt Court Refers 31 People to Mufti over Public Prosecutor Murder

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...

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Egypt’s Interior Minister Major-General Abdul Ghafar at a press conference held in Cairo yesterday (AFP)

Egypt: The Brotherhood is Accused of Planning and Carrying Out Hisham Barakat’s Assassination

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...