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EGYPT: POLICEMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
May 14, 2012: an Egyptian court in Minya sentenced a Muslim man to death for the killing and wounding of six Christians. Today’s court session was to pronounce the verdict.
Judge Mahmoud Salama pronounced the sentenced against 29-year-old policeman Amer Ashour Abdel-Zaher. During its previous session, the court had referred the case to the Egyptian Grand Mufti, as is usual with a death penalty verdict, who supported the court's decision. In December, 2010 Abdel-Zaher, who worked as a policeman at the Bani Mazar police investigations unit, went on a train bound for Cairo from Assiut in the upper Egyptian town of Samalut and fired his gun at six Copts after chanting "Allahu Akbar". (Sources: AINA, 15/05/2012)
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