EGYPT: MILITANT'S DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED TO JAIL TERM
December 23, 2010: Judge Abdullah Abu Hashem of the Egyptian state security court commuted the death sentence of Abdel Hamid Musa Abu Aqrab to life imprisonment. Abu Aqrab, headed of Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiya military, was convicted in June for murdering two generals and two policemen in 1992 and 1993. (Sources: Reuters, 23/12/2010)
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