05 June 2018 :

the Court of Cassation upheld the Alexandria Criminal Court›s decision to execute three out of 71 defendants in case No. 6300 for 2013/ East Alexandria, which is known in the media as «The Events of al-Qaid Ibrahim». The verdict of the Criminal Court, which the report team obtained, showed the prosecution charging the defendants with more than 11 charges, including premeditated murder, attempted murder of others, participation in the gathering and display of force, assault on the crowd dispersal police forces, attempt to occupy a building by force, the destruction of public property and the destruction of a church, the theft of movables, the possession and acquisition of weapons and joining a group founded in violation of the law. The events of the case refer to the violence witnessed in the vicinity of al-Qaid Ibrahim Mosque in Alexandria on 14 August 2013 after attempts to disperse the crowd, which resulted in the deaths of 14 people and injured the police captain responsible for the dispersion of the crowd. The Criminal Court referred the three defendants papers to the Mufti, before issuing the death sentence for two defendants in custody: Yasser Abdel-Samad Mohamed Abdel-Fattah, and Yasser al-Abasiri Abdel Naim Ismael Issa. And one defendants in absentia, Waleed Mohammed Abdel Hamid Habib. The court also upheld jail sentences ranging from 10 to 25 years for 59 defendants in the case and acquitted three others. The court of cassation verdicts are final and cannot be appealed. The lower court had convicted the defendants of the murder of 18 people, including two policemen, as well as the attempted murder of 80 others.