CAIRO
(Reuters) - A Cairo criminal court on Saturday sentenced to death 28 people
over the 2015 killing of Egypt's top prosecutor and handed 15 others jail
sentences of
25 years each.
The court
had in June recommended passing the death penalty to Egypt's top religious
authority, the Grand Mufti, who can approve or reject the recommendation.
The
sentences, confirmed by the court in Saturday's hearing after the Grand Mufti's
approval, can be appealed.
Public
prosecutor Hisham Barakat was killed in a car bomb attack on his convoy in
Cairo, an operation for which Egypt blamed the Muslim Brotherhood and
Gaza-based Hamas militants. Both groups have denied it.
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